To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:29:07 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Woodcarving


>Also, cover the leg (knee included) on which you'll be resting the hand 
>holding the wood (if you chose to carve without the help of a vice) with a 
>thick piece of blanket or anything similar. This is to prevent the knife 
>"stabbing" your leg. It happened to me once :O)
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Thanks Caro.
Makes sense.

I know it now, but a few years ago, while I was giving a styrofoam and paper 
mache puppet making workshop, a few minutes after warning a student about 
the dangers of craft knives, I sliced my thigh quite deeply, when my knife 
went further than planned. What a bloody mess. Thankfully, the student 
wasn't affraid of blood, and I'm not one to panic about such trifles (I 
operated on myself a few times in the past).
I rinsed and taped the wound shut, and got back to the workshop. It healed 
quite fast.

Since then, I wear an apron when I work messy stuff and use "knify" tools.
I might get or make myself a leather or rubber apron for wood carving.
Then again, I might just develop the proper discipline to never need such 
"crutches".
Again, I look up to Bali mask carvers, who seem to do it so easily, and so 
boldly, without protection.

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