When you work at a photo studio and put your thumb in a table saw...
 

You get some pretty shots!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1225381815.jpg

Dude! Too early in the morning for this...

Looks like you got away easy.

Cool picture.

Tonight I`ll take a picture of my thumb too. I ran an electric screwdriver under my nail while working on the P-car. It is not bloody anymore though...

Aurel

You're lucky, I've had guys lose two fingers to table saws.

+1

Glad you are still able to count to 10.

The thought of losing digits on the table saw makes me work pretty damn slow and careful. Scares the crap out of me.

Other tools I'm probably too easy-going with. I lost a chunk of my ankle to an angle grinder two weeks ago. Was in an awkward position grinding the 4 runner frame for a patch, dropped the angle grinder, and it actually fetched up on the neck of my boot. Went through the pants, boot, socks. OUCH

brings back memories
i thought i would try my first 2 fingers on the left hand in a table saw. didnt lose any thing, just looked like the ends of 2 hot dogs that had been in the microwave for too long. oh, i play guitar so it was quite painfull for a long time after. the week after, i did a bicycle race on roads that were as rough as they come. the handle bars beat it to death.

i play, well played in the church band, the keyboard/piano player put his thumb straight in to one, he had chunks all over his shoulder. he lost about half. i use to get a chuckle when we were playing and i would see him have to twist his hand to reach the octave. his name? tom-thumbless

Thanks to that mistake on a miter saw, my father in law can only count to 8.;) You got off easy.

I used to be a cook. I've done worse with a 10 inch knife while cutting tomatos.

My high school gym teacher had a woodchipper incident...he could count to 3 on both of his hands

I seen a guy put the fleshy part of his thumb into a bit on a router table. Sprayed blood aross the shop onto the wall.

Worst ive done was take a knuckle down to the bone on a belt sander.

I can count to three on both hands. ;)

I was cutting an 1/8th inch rabbet. Luckily the blade wasn't any higher. Got lucky.

You guys don't want to see my work pictures. More lopped off fingertips than you can fit in a Halloween punchbowl.

Not zesty!

My dad was a carpenter and most of his friends were carpenters or worked the local lumberyards. At the monthly poker game you could almost count to ten on the half-digits. When he retired, his neighbor was a meat cutter and he had half-digits too. My dad just had one deformed nail from a sliver that gave him blood poisoning. Us kids always joked that dad belonged to a secret club that couldn't count to ten using their fingers.

Safety is one thing but the more important way to look at it is "you cant do tequila shots without thumbs"

Ouch, Be safe

The wood craftshop at Redstone Arsenal bought a SawStop several months ago...it stops the sawblade in milliseconds after it makes contact with a finger, hand, etc. Here is there explanation:
"The SawStop safety system includes an electronic detection system that detects when a person contacts the blade. The system induces an electrical signal onto the blade and then monitors that signal for changes. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity which cause the signal to drop when a person contacts the blade. Wood has a relatively small inherent capacitance and conductivity and does not cause the signal to drop."

I recommend you check out their link just to see the demo of how the table works:
http://www.sawstop.com/index.htm

You're bragging, you still have your thumb :D

I'm finishing up some kitchen cabinets now and I wise up real quick when the table saw comes out.

Ooooh man that gave me that funny feeling in my balls. Hope you're OK?