Safety and wood working

I was browsing the net and found a nice article on the woodworking and the injuries people suffer. The article in courier journal says that since the injuries are on the rise because of tow main things and that is the recessions which means people will generally try to do a loot of thing by themselves as well as the other reason is that people generally see all those TV shows and think that they thy can do what is being shown on home makeovers and stuff.


1) Eye protection is a must. Always use goggles and one such goggles is the polycarbonate goggles. The nail flying off after hitting with the hammer is the most common injury that happens to the uninitiated.
2) Read the directions given in the woodworking plans as well as on the various manuals given by the tool manufactures for the wood working tools. Most people think that they are capable of handling the tools however there may be some specifics that you need to be careful about.
3) Be careful with your hands. Lacerations and the amputations are a very common injury.

Please make sure that you have the gloves on and be very very careful with chisels,, drills, hand saws. Well those which are hand operated are still fine whoever the power tools like the drill press or the cordless drills can be very very dangerous.
4) Ladders are another thing that people just think can be put up and you can reach for the top. However chances are that you may stepping on the unstable ladder and in that case you may fall from a height and cause the damage to your back and in some case falling from a height of 10 feet and easily cause severe injuries.
5) Another major thing is the alcohol. Lot of us think that consuming a beer along with working is the male thing to do. Please avoid that as the senses generally get numbed and you end up getting injured.

My new blog on power tools reviews

Hi to my regular readers and the best I wish to introduce you to my new blog Power tools review which is the best thing that has happened to me. A lot of my fellow woodworkers who I interact always have been asking about honest reviews of all the tings and that too first hand and here is the new blog which I have started.

I will be giving reviews on the power tools and hopefully that will help a lot of you folks

Here is the address http://power-tools-review-blog.blogspot.com/

My endeavor is to provide reviews of all the wood working tools as well as make sure that I cover a lot for related accessories including the drill presses, drill bit, belt sanders and carving knifes. It will also include the gouges and the hand saws.

I just hope that I can keep on working on the wood as well as doing my regular day job.

My tools and wish I had more money

Last Christmas I was presented a Grizzly T10010 10" wet grinder by my kids. Let me say that I am happy with this though I wish I had more so that I could have got something more better and robust which was the Tormek.

The package which can came in the mail was super easy to install and that was just putting in the tool rest on specially made table. Then I screwed in the locking knobs and then made sure that I put the grinding wheel and the buffing wheel.



You will need to fill in the water reservoir and then make sure that you wet the wheel enough so that the wheel is running quietly and it works like a charm.

Well I tried testing the Chisel that I had and it was done fine. I had the nick removed from my special chisel and the put the chisel on the tool rest. The tool rest is a problem with Grizzly tools as it did not have knob for adjusting the height. The buffing tool worked wonderfully well and the chisel which was sharp as it could get.

The only problem which I had head from a lot of people is the fact that in most cases there is no after sales service with grizzly and I am not sure whether that will impact me.
One of the projects that I am going to cover is the wooden bar stools

Grizzly tools are very good and I like them. Off to wood working