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  • From: "victoria l. caron" <vicaron@gis.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Is grafting a blood sport?
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:20:38 +0000

Hi Joe,
It may be that I've been lucky having only cut myself twice in around ten
years, but maybe it's my style. I LOCK (key word) my grip - including my
wrist - thumb up during the cut - never moving a joint (kind of how you lock
onto chopsticks so they don't slide around, but with a different holding
pattern). Always pull straight and towards you. Both cuts I received were
doing the stock cut for smaller cleft grafts when I first started and
should have been more careful of the hand holding the stock which I brought
up against the knife as I let go the stock to get my wedge. DUH!!! Good
luck,
vic NH zone 3

Joe and Ellen Hecksel wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> Does grafting qualify as a blood sport? You know, a "sport" where some
> dumb brute follows it's unbridled instinct with the unfortunate loss of
> blood, limb, etc.?
>
> This has been a clumsy year for me. I put a BIG notch in my left thumb
> trying to milk one more bud off a stick. I modified my technique since
> that event. Consequently, more than one of my remaining fingers have
> been nicked.
>
> The worst bloodletting was when I jammed my injured thumb loading
> laundry into the machine. Guess I will stick to grafting. I am not man
> enough to take the pain of laundry. At least that is what I will tell
> Ellen 8-)
>
> Keep your shovels, knives and wits sharp.
>
> --
> -Joe Hecksel
> My personal web site: http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel
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>
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