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One time was setting up a winged tenon cutter in the router, when the router was in its table mount, with the cutter facing up. Was getting ready to cut a groove in the edge of a board for a sailboat. I must not have had the collet tightened right, or maybe the bit was too shallow in the collet, since I reached under the table to turn on the router, and as it spun up the cutter (1/4" thick wing cutter about 2" diameter) wobbled a little, bent its shank, the cutter edge bent over and caught the table, launched the whole cutter up into my chest, right off the breastbone in the center. Fortunately it was not going too fast at that point so it just left a bruise and did not go through the skin. The shank was bent about 30 degrees over.Those were my two closest calls (and THAT, boys and girls, is why you wear protective gear around power tools!).
Quote from: crueby on April 05, 2017, 08:27:47 PMOne time was setting up a winged tenon cutter in the router, when the router was in its table mount, with the cutter facing up. Was getting ready to cut a groove in the edge of a board for a sailboat. I must not have had the collet tightened right, or maybe the bit was too shallow in the collet, since I reached under the table to turn on the router, and as it spun up the cutter (1/4" thick wing cutter about 2" diameter) wobbled a little, bent its shank, the cutter edge bent over and caught the table, launched the whole cutter up into my chest, right off the breastbone in the center. Fortunately it was not going too fast at that point so it just left a bruise and did not go through the skin. The shank was bent about 30 degrees over.Those were my two closest calls (and THAT, boys and girls, is why you wear protective gear around power tools!). Safety glasses yes, but I seldom wear my breast-plate anymore. It makes me look so Carthaginian.I've seen guys using a draw-knife on a shaving horse wearing a flat wood chest plate suspended by a neck band. Some gorgets, especially those worn by the Nazi military police, might work nicely.