"Most common hobby injury" Topic

After dropping a razor knife and narrowly missing my foot again, I got curious about hobby injuries. In my own case, I have suffered multiple razor knife cuts, including dropping one that embedded in my foot, drilled into a fingernail and into my finger tips, glued fingers together, gotten glue in my eye, gotten slivers, poured molten lead on my hand and arm, multiple other burns, paper cuts, string cuts and stabbed myself with sharp pikes.

It would be cool if we could have a multiple choice poll like:

What injuries have you sustained in pursuit of the hobby?
a) Razor knife slices
b) Burns
c) Glued fingers together
d) Glue in eyes
e) Dropped razor knife and stabbed foot
f) Drilled into flesh
g) Other (describe)

A, C, F (weekly), G- Drying of tear ducts due to exposure of super glue fumes. At least that's my home diagnosis.

A, C

Dipped my paint brush in the glue the other day.

A and C for me.

Empty wallet

A, but I've done E …

A.

C is a temporary inconvenience, not an injury.

a), c) and g)

I was using a hot-melt glue gun in the summer and wearing only shorts a blob of glue dropped from the tip onto my leg, burning instantly. My instinctive reaction was to grab the burning glue with my fingers, and of course they also got burnt…

Years ago I breathed in spray primer but have worn a full mask since then.

Drinking the paintbrush water

A and C--assuming an X-acto knife is a "razor knife." The term is new to me. Right on the edge of B working with hot glue guns, but nothing requiring treatment.

Back in The Day--sore throat and sore eyes, shouting in a smoke-filled room. Today, I feel it in my shoulders and elbows as I handle castings, but I don't know whether that's symptom or cause.

A and G.

Stabbing myself with an X-Acto knife when it suddenly slipped through/off the part I was cutting, and into my leg. Moral to the story, work at a table, and not sitting on the floor, indian-style, with bent, crossed legs, when working on models/parts.

I still have the scar on a finger from a significant Xacto cut when I was sixteen. That's over fifty years ago. Have been MUCH more careful since.

? all of the above ????

As a professional miniature artist and model maker I've achieved all of the above with the exception of glue in the eyes…

However one incident I'll never forget was spilling an entire bottle of low viscosity quick setting superglue into my lap….

I'll not elaborate any further on the consequences but as mentioned I'll never forget that incident!

A. Dropped an X-acto knife that in-bedded itself in the seat of my chair between my thighs.
C.

Terry

Definitely A and C.

Ramming a Macedonian pike way under my finger nail while picking the unit up to quick.

A, occasionally C, sort of.

A C F

Being barefoot and using a hobby knife. Especially the heavy metal barreled ones. Had my knife roll off the workbench and impel itself in my big toe. The blade hit in the perfect spot between the knuckle. Blade sunk almost to the hilt. Had to go to the ER to get it removed. Hobby and trauma should never go together.

When I shape pink insulation for terrain, I always try to cut away from me, sometimes, while working, I unconsciously cut towards me, and puncture myself.

A

A

Knife cuts, burns, and I also put my back out leaning across a gaming table.

I don't think breathing all those solvents in the 1970s and 80s while modelling and painting did me much good either.

A, C & F

A. I now often put the band aid on before I start cutting to act as armour. As for the rest, no so I guess I'm not a proper modeller :-)

I've only really had A and F, though I do most of my drilling with a pin vise so my incidences of F are very minor.
C almost happens all the time, but it's so easy to prevent and fix (at least with super glue), that I don't even remember the the last time it happened.

A and C

A and C and then using C to close the cut from A.

A and C.

My worst knife injury was when converting a metal Wars of the Roses dismounted knight, the knife slipped and sliced into my left index finger, severing the nerve (though gladly, not the Artery)adjascent to the terminal phalanx.
About 18 months later, most of the feeling returned to the right tip.
This was one reason I switched to hard plastics!!!

G: After games I usually have a bruised ego.

A) and psychological harm from painting too many white straps on Napoleonic 15mm figs,

assuming an X-acto knife is a "razor knife." The term is new to me

Razor is the type, X-acto is a brand that has become the default name, like:

Tissue is the type, Kleenex is a brand

Adjustable is the type, Crescent is a brand

etc.

A) Rarely
B) Once. My only really cool scar.
C) Often. I once glued my left forefinger to my right thumb. That took some figgerin'.
D) Never. A guy who worked at a nearby hobby store CA'd his eye trying to unclog a tube. The ophthalmologist they called into the ER told him it was a good thing he had contacts in.
E) Never
F) once it twice, but never deeply.

ABCEFG
I'm also a Hot Wheels restorer and I've been seeing a running trend of fumes from stripper and people shooting 2k paint in their hobby room … Long term side effects can be deadly.

A and C

I read, "Most common Hobo injury"…

And I thought, "Finally, a decent poll."

a, c, several near misses for e, f, and g – filing notches into fingernails or inadvertently filing through a fingernail. But a is the most prevalent. I now keep band-aids near my hobby table.

a,b,c for sure… the g could be diminished eye sight straining to paint that one last strap

A, B, C, E(ish, razor was standing in my thigh)

Empty bank account….

G – Wife – "YOU USED WHAT BOWLS TO MIX YOUR PAINTS!?!?!!?"

Guillotine decapitation, happens from time to time, but I usually get better.

A and C, but more than once each. You'd think I'd learn.

Most of them. The worst was when I sliced my finger with an Exacto. Right along the side of the nail. 22 years ago and the nail still isn't quite right.

A and C mostly

Drinking the paintbrush water, a classic,
How about mistaking your glass of 12 year old single malt for your paintbrush water?

@Timmo uk
I was using a hot-melt glue gun in the summer and wearing only shorts a blob of glue dropped from the tip onto my leg, burning instantly. My instinctive reaction was to grab the burning glue with my fingers, and of course they also got burnt…

Do you also fry bacon in the nude?

When I was doing a lot with miniature a/c F was common.

Frostbite from the look SWMBO gives me after going over the credit card statement.

Pliers pinch. Holding a tiny miniature in one hand and futzing with the pliers (needlenose pliers, or nippers) on a teeny-tiny nurbly bit and not noticing where the flesh of my fingers is before clamping down on them. C'mon guys … am I the only one?

I also get blisters on my hand and fingers when I haven't used the nippers in a while and I end up doing a large, repetitive project with them.

A and C' (just plain glue on fingers, but not necessarily bound together) has resulted in many people taking an inordinate amount of time to get usable fingerprints from me.