Highland Staff

Woodworker’s Safety Week 2010

May 122010
 

It’s Safety Week 2010 for Woodworkers – a good time to consider some of your own shop safety practices and think about what you might improve. One of our customers, Howard Van Valzah, contributed this great safety tip that could be valuable to some of you. We’ve also included some links below to other blogs that are also ‘celebrating’ safety week with links and tips that could help improve your workshop safety.

Got tips of your own? Share them in the comments!
Enjoy and be safe!

A Two Minute Safety Tip
by Howard Van Valzah
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As a veteran woodworker age 80 I have finally learned something I should have learned many years ago. Recently it became obvious to me that the majority of my woodworking injuries were on my left hand. The worst one was on my left thumb that wandered by itself into a table saw blade. Stitches didn’t work so a skin graft was needed to complete the cure. That happened four years ago.

Click to read the rest of Howard’s safety tip

A couple of safety links for you
The Wood Whisperer
Matts Basement Workshop

Care and Sharpening of Router Bits

Dec 242008
 

 

If router bits were hand tools we’d almost certainly handle them quite differently, but when it’s the power company that’s doing most of the work, it’s easy to forget what makes cutting tools cut.

If a good chisel might need sharpening twenty times during the course of a week’s hard work, then a carbide-tipped router bit doing the same work will have to be sharpened at least once a week.

Sharpening router bits is surprisingly easy to do. You don’t need a sharpening jig, precision measuring instruments or complex machinery.

Click here to read more about how to sharpen your router bits