Silverware drawer organizer

 

One of my earliest projects was a replacement for my chintsy plastic silverware organizer

 I ripped a pine stud into 5 or so half inch slats and rounded the tops off and then set the layout and glued it together

 

 

In the process of making this I also had what one might call a slight mishap. Unaware of general safety rules when using a table saw, i reached behind the blade to reach for this piece of wood. The wood kicked and my index finger was sucked into the blade 

I immediately call my father.

"hey dad hows it goin?"

and these were literally his first words

"Good Good. You still got all your fingers?"

Hes a psychic

This blade(well, not this one exactly, but you get the idea)

 

The blade scraped all of the pad of my left index finger and left it hanging by a thread. I went to urgent care and they tried to sew thew skin back on, but alas, it did not take. It turned black and fell off when I was helping someone move a table at work.

Luckily  the skin healed well underneath, and while it is even now not fully healed(nerve damage), it could have been much much worse.

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