Injury thread (NO PICTURES PLEASE!!)

[DutchMF]

My wife just asked me how much I was spending on pedals... I think I need to bang my head on something quick.

Just tell her it's your way of expressing yourself artistically (as if playing guitar wasn't enough......)   

Paul

[pk1802]

Saw stars one nite when I smacked my head on the underside of my work bench picking up a dropped part. Wife says I haven't been the same lol. So when I make a huge part order I just blame it on the head injury.

That is so cool having an excuse like that!

My wife just asked me how much I was spending on pedals... I think I need to bang my head on something quick.

My girlfriend just asked the same question. I keep a spreadsheet of every guitar related transaction, in and out. I showed her the total once all debits and credits are applied, and she said, "Oh, I've spent more than that on shoes in the last year." Now I am the one who is worried about finances...

I forgot that I once touched the back of my knuckles on my soldering iron. I still have a pretty cool looking scar. When I hold all my fingers together, you can see a line of scars where I touched the iron.

I've only dropped a soldering iron once. Unfortunately it was on a manlift. The weight of my powercord pulled the soldering iron off of my workstation. Destroyed my iron, and melted the carpet a little bit.

[selfdestroyer]

I keep a spreadsheet of every guitar related transaction, in and out. I showed her the total once all debits and credits are applied

I could never do this.. it would be used as evidence against me for sure..The hard thing for me is I usually build 2 of everything so I can sell/trade one and keep one for myself. I become attached to the pedals I build.

[gordo]

I could never do this.. it would be used as evidence against me for sure..The hard thing for me is I usually build 2 of everything so I can sell/trade one and keep one for myself. I become attached to the pedals I build.

It would probably make me cringe to see what I've spent over the years. 

[wolfingsworth]

I've had the spinning enclosure before (pre drill press). But I think the most insulting was driving two of the pins of my mn3005 fake half way into the tip of my pointer finger (the one I grip the iron with). Other than that just minor burns that evoke a few choice words

[Effectsiation]

My worst was an exacto knife that I gashed into my arm at full speed/strength. It was late at night, and I was trying to undo the zip ties on an amp I was taking apart. Stupidly I was pulling toward my body and it slipped and the whole blade went right into my arm just missing an artery. I've also stupidly caught a falling soldering iron when I started out.

[TNblueshawk]

I've sort of forgotten the chain of events now but somehow I sustained 3 separate burns within a few seconds. As I recall I I had the iron in one hand and did the traditional burn and the way I did was that I was looking through a mag glass but the iron was to the side where things are a bit distorted so I grabbed the iron tip with my index and thumb. My reaction caused the iron to fall towards my lap sp you better save the ole' dog and I grabbed it sort of and had it pressed against my wood work bench and the meat of my palm. As I let go the iron was stuck to the meat for a second or so which seemed like forever so I shook it loose.

Oh I'm not done.

So at that time I had my desoldering iron on and I used to wedge it between my workbench in a certain way as it is one of those Rat Shak all in one irons with no stand. As the pain started to intensify, guess I'm a puss, I was standing on some garage steps and I was just the right height to the desold iron next to me and I thought I was resting my arm on a woodenledge but instead rested the meat of my forearm right on top of that desold iron. FCUK! I turned off both irons and went upstairs to get sympothy from my wife. I was done for the night.

[jkokura]

Had blood on the bottom of my sock last night after getting stabbed by a vengeful resistor lead.

I swear, I work so hard to get each one into the can, how do they keep ending up on my floor!

Jacob

[haveyouseenhim]

Had blood on the bottom of my sock last night after getting stabbed by a vengeful resistor lead.

I swear, I work so hard to get each one into the can, how do they keep ending up on my floor!

Jacob

I keep a harddrive magnet on my bench. I just clip the leads near it and most of my leads stick to it. It doesn't catch them all, mostly ones from tayda.

[slimtriggers]

Needed to grab a part while I was soldering, so I switched hands with the iron.  But when I switched hands, I grabbed the tip not the handle.  I didn't hold onto it for long, but still got a nice burn on my thumb and fingers.  Callouses protected me a bit, but it looked pretty nasty for a while.  I'm WAY more careful with the iron now, and made a personal rule not to switch hands anymore.  If I need something that's out of reach of my free hand I put the iron down first.

[billstein]

I've sort of forgotten the chain of events now but somehow I sustained 3 separate burns within a few seconds. As I recall I I had the iron in one hand and did the traditional burn and the way I did was that I was looking through a mag glass but the iron was to the side where things are a bit distorted so I grabbed the iron tip with my index and thumb. My reaction caused the iron to fall towards my lap sp you better save the ole' dog and I grabbed it sort of and had it pressed against my wood work bench and the meat of my palm. As I let go the iron was stuck to the meat for a second or so which seemed like forever so I shook it loose.

Oh I'm not done.

So at that time I had my desoldering iron on and I used to wedge it between my workbench in a certain way as it is one of those Rat Shak all in one irons with no stand. As the pain started to intensify, guess I'm a puss, I was standing on some garage steps and I was just the right height to the desold iron next to me and I thought I was resting my arm on a woodenledge but instead rested the meat of my forearm right on top of that desold iron. FCUK! I turned off both irons and went upstairs to get sympothy from my wife. I was done for the night.

That's hilarious (In a I feel your pain and really care and uhhh are you Ok now bro?) sort of way. To bad you didn't have a video camera going. Would have won America's Funniest Video for sure.

Did you get any sympathy from your wife or did she just give you THAT look?

[pickdropper]

Generally, I find that I am more inclined to minor injuries if I am trying to rush too much.

About a month back, I was deburring a drilled enclosure and I was going a bit fast in the standard circular motion one uses with that tool.  The deburring tool slipped out of the enclosure and made a very sharp pronounced V in my thumb.  Honestly, I don't think I could've cut a V that nicely if I tried to.  It was kind of like Zorro had a twin brother named Victor.

[TNblueshawk]

Bill, she looked at me and said "what is wrong with you" and it was said in a way where she really meant it like I had mental issues. I admitted I was an idiot and I asked her to kiss my boo boo's   She declined...story of my life!