Blood removal

[Ben-Had]

A blood stain on the inside of the top is sort of becoming a DNA signiture for me. I think I am at 4 for 5. I usally get it out but it does seem to soak into spruce pretty deep.

For me it is the chisels. Not when I am actully cutting because I keep my fingers out of the way. Rather it occures when I am just holding the chisel and I lightly brush across the tip or brush the tip against a finger when I am doing something else.

That's what scary sharp will do to ya!

[darren]

were you cutting out the soundhole from the inside of an already braced top? just trying to picture what you were doing...

[deadedith]

From the inside of an unbraced top.

And I learned the same lesson today I should have learned yesterday - no, I did not cut a finger today BUT it was the end of the day, today, I was getting tired because I'm old and lecherous, I had been working on binding the inside of said soundhole. (I've placed this hole in the upper bout, not in the conventional place) I had a perfect fit of a solid ring of cocobolo, I'd spent two hours getting it just right, thought I might just as well glue 'er in - applied the glue after wiping the cocobolo, got clear packing tape everywhere it was needed to guard against gluing the binding the top the work bench and every other thing in the shop together, placed the binding in the hole, it was a little tighter than I remembered just 5 minutes before, jimmied it around a little bit, and POP goes the binding. Three pieces. It was the titebond, of course, swelling the wood so quickly that my perfect fit was too tight and I did not just stop and think about it before giving it a little push.

So, two days in a row, toward the end of the day, two careless things. All is fixed now, I just hope I REMEMBER the lesson. :-)

[Tony_in_NYC]

Did you remember to let that bleeding fellow out of your trunk?

[deadedith]

Slipped my mind. I was going to release him and then my binding popped out. Priorities, youi know..:-)