Post #3521 by woofmutt on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 1:51 AM

I'll add some more to this later but for starters: Never cut towards yourself (your body, hand, leg). It's 8th grade shop advice or general dad advice but it's widely ignored as most any emergency room can tell you. The temptation is to stay in the flow of a cut even though the blade and you are on a collision course. Move. Find a different angle and continue. Get your piece of wood anchored down somehow (Is that Navy slang?). And wear safety googles so you don't waste valuable carving time fishing wood chips out of your eye or eye chips out of your wood.