Eye had a fun time the other day...

Don't we all scoff when some say we need eye protection when modeling? Lesson learned?
I have only the occasional sliced thumb to 'brag' of when using the xacto wrong.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Other than a few PE cuts in my fingers, the occassional strike of PE on my eyeglasses (thankfully they were there) I've had PE pieces hit the floor and get imbedded into the anti-fatgue mats that I stand on. Once I felt a tickle on my foot followed by a warm wet sensation. Inspection revealed that I had a piece of PE frame stuck in my foot. At the time I wasn't wearing footwear, it sliced through my sock and buried deep into my foot. No initial pain, just lots of blood. Removing it wasn't pleasant. Now I wear flipflops as a minimum and have retrieved PE shards from those as well. No matter how careful one is, PE seems to gravitate to the floor and into the carpet or mats.

see, that's the kind of thing you just dont know about until it happens. guess i'll be more careful with my p.e.!!!!!

Last week I was working on a dio component that required the use of a saw and X-Acto knife... I wanted to watch TV while I was doing it, so I was working on the couch...  Anyway, I finished with the knife and set it on the cushion next to me.  After a time, I finished what I was doing with the saw, then decided it would be nice to stretch out a bit and slid over on the couch and then...

...Yep, you guessed it, slid right into the knife, driving its blade handle-deep into the left cheek of my azz...  

Since I was alone, dressing the wound to stop the bleeding was an excercise in contortion as well... 

I put an exacto knife blade right through my thumbnail about 1/4 inch deep.

Fun stuff. Laughed about it for days!

Wow, these are better than I expected.  Hans...ouch.  That all I can say.  I never thought my exacto could stab that badly until one day it rolled off my desk and burried itself in the thick plastic floor protector an inch from my foot.  I've been more careful since. 

I've never worked with photo etch parts but now I know. 

Doog, I've done that with a pocket knife. Down through the tip of my thumb first. 

And just to make my initial injury more fun...I was wearing glasses.

SG, same thing happened to me. a chunk of stryene went to my eye! And I wear glasses! That hurt soooo much... I had to flush my eye out with water for 30 minutes...

And then the cut-off wheel at 18,000 RPM that cut in my finger...

Xacto injuries aplenty...

The worst was when I decided to lean back in my chair instead of working over the bench and I dropped the Xacto. That fella landed right in the top of my thigh, blade deep, standing straight up. Those things are sharp so it didn't hurt at first. Very little blood and not too much pain 'till a few minutes after I pulled it out... then it was really sore... like a tetanus shot on steroids. 

fermis wrote:

I taped a bit of sprue on the end of my knife(like a "T") hasn't happened again.

That's a good idea!

Ok, I got a nasty eye injury story:

I was modeling one night and apparently, a small piece of plastic got in my eye. PAIN!!!!  I tried not to blink but that was nearly impossible.  I finally got the piece out and my eye was very sore...until the morning.

I woke up and my eye still felt strange.  I took a look in the mirror and I saw a white sore on my cornea about the size of a small pea.  This kind of freaked me out and I went to the doctor.

I found out I had scratched my cornea causing an ulcer to form.  The doctor was concerned because if the ulcer got worse than I would need surgery.  NOOOO!!!! Not eye surgery.

The doctor gave my antibotic drops and some ointment to put in my eye.  The ointment was about as thick as Vaseline.  Very nasty to put in my eye, twice a day.  I was on this course of treatment for 3 weeks.  I had to go the doctor's 5 times to check how deep the ulcer was and I missed a week of work.

To make a long story short (too late), my eye is fine and now I wear safety glasses when modelling.

-Jesse

Wow, I feel your pain.  At least the first part.  Now I feel like I got off lucky. 

I know I have some goggles around here somewhere...