Have a question Guys about tillering

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Malarky....  

[Lee Slikkers]

LOL, too dang true Chris...maybe I just shouldn't read all these threads on "theory" and sit and stew on some of the paragraphs in the Torges book that make me go hmmmmmmm.

I really only slowed down this week cause I was debarking a nice skinny Osage stave to start for my oldest boy while I am working on some of the trickier stuff on my Trade bow BUT as I was brilliantly using my drawknife to remove the sapwood and excess stuff around a pin knot by pressing the pulled up run of sapwood against the blade edge and lifting...the sapwood stayed put and once again I got "bit" by my drawknife.  This time was much worse than the last blood letting though and I completely removed a nice 1" long, 1/2" wide and 1/4" deep triangle of meat from the inside ball of my thumb.       Ouch...would be putting it mildly.  All I know is that if all my deer left a blood trail like I did from the basement to the sink I could find them in the dark with my eyes closed    

Anyway, I have it gauzed up and the snot taped out of it and trying to use a drawknife or my scrapers is a bit tough at the moment.  I'm hoping that by early next week I can get the wrapping down to a size that allows me to bend my thumb so I can have some gripping ability and some control on the tools.

What a wreck...LOL

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Ouch!! Been there, done that......hope you heal up soon man. I always wear gloves when I'm prepping staves and using the draw knife for anything except chasing a ring.

[Lee Slikkers]

Thanks Bud, I actually had just taken off my pair of "Iron Clads" when I was opening my can of shellac to soak the stiff brush in prep for coating the backs when I was done cleaning a pile of them up.  Oh well, lesson learned again.