I got injured, so I built something different
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
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A while back I had a woodworking injury. I didn't talk about it in any of my regular videos and had been sitting on this project for about a year and a half. Now that I have this channel it seemed like a good opportunity to tell the story.
Thank you and be safe! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
A router related safety tip.
On my corded router I have the collet spanner (wrench) secured to the plug end of the power cord with zip ties. It makes it impossible to swap or adjust the bit without unplugging the router to use the spanner.
That's actually pretty smart. Thanks for the tip.
Brilliant
I like it. Even tho mine is battery powered.
Hi Chris,
I have been watching your channels for years which inspired me to create my own woodworking channel named "ONE HANDED MAKER"
This video for obvious reasons connected with me on a more personal level, seeing I have one arm and make furniture then post on TH-cam. That said, it's always interesting to hear from a great maker on how they manage "One Handedness" (that is a real word).
Love the build and love the video.
Regards
James - ONE HANDED MAKER - Australia
P.S. Good to see you recovered from the incident!
Just subscribed brother gonna go see some of your stuff 🙏
Thank you for not showing the image, can’t stand blood or injuries. I am glad you made a full recovery or Chubyemu would be all over it.
Man, that's a crossover concept nearly on par with Dr. Bernard having Guga in a video.
Even for a prototype that came out looking fantastic. Thankfully the brass rod screw up is on the back.
I’m scrolling with a thumb that’s still recovering from contact a table saw blade a month ago. Sometimes a small injury waking you up from complacency can prevent a worse one later. I am MUCH more mindful of safety than I was a month ago.
I’m very glad your thumb remains with you. Speedy healing!
The music at the end took me back to when I first found your channel a few years ago when you had those really nice instrumentals.
I love the build! And I don't know how well it would work, but if you are concerned about the walnut against the head stock, it might be a nice touch to line the hanger with a thin softer leather sleeve.
I was thinking leather as well. Cork is also a great natural material and is a wood product
Really appreciated being taken along for the ride of the design process. The mark of a good designer is not perfection; but their ability to improvise when circumstances call for it. Lovely piece in the end.
I am truly amazed at how your mind works when you design. Very cool piece. It makes me want to dig my guitar out of the closet and have you build me a stand.
Voting for more live guitar music in your videos.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for not showing. Sometimes I feel a woodworking incident is inevitable, I just hope when I put the tools down, I can use both hands to count to 10.
That's an absolutely gorgeous guitar stand. and i'm happy that the injury was as "harmless" as it was.
Nice playing - added a nice ending :) For your question, I would use some metal weights embedded in the bottom of a thinner base.
Thanks for not showing the results of doing something dumb. I took a piece out of my thumb ages ago on a router bit in my trim router in a similar way. Turned it off, set it down, picked it up to move it because it was in the way and caught the still spinning bit because I wasn't looking what I was doing. Never again. Nice guitar stand too, sometimes the relatively simple builds are as nice to do as the super complicated ones.
I had a similar accident with a router bit on a finger. End of the day, tired, doing a bunch of repetitive routing for cabinet doors. Just spaced out in my hand placement. Like you it didn't really hurt until later but it sure scared me! To this day I know that I should stop when I'm tired, even if I know I am "almost" done -- turns out you are never "almost" done and can go on too long!
Glad you’re ok. Thanks for explaining what you did. I’m sure it saved someone’s thumb or will.
you could hang anything from that stand and all I'd see is the stand..very handsome..walnut/maple is a perfect choice! Glad your injury wasn't worse..thanks for sharing
As a bow hunter, I saw my compound hunting bow hanging from it! Now I’m in the garage looking at just the right wood to steal the idea for a bow stand for myself!!! …Maple, cherry, wenge, padauk, bacoada…
I drilled into my knee once (went through wood that was thinner than expected) and it didn't hurt at all. 1/8" bit, went in about 1/4", narrowly missing bone. the heat cauterized the wound immediately, no blood at all. when it started healing it did hurt A LOT as nerves regenerated...
glad you're ok and have no permanent damage!!
That is a really stunning guitar stand mate, Well done!
Nice build. Shit happens. When we stop thinking... Had my nephew help me on a big door replacement job. Let him cut casing on the chop saw. Briefed him before he started... "If you don't touch the blade, it won't hurt you." "I don't want to call your mom and tell her that you can't count to 10 ." He did good.
The more time we spend working with tools, the greater the chance of injury. Me? I've spent years with my skilsaw guard chalked up. No problem. It's respect... I did mitre my left long finger on a table saw doing a free hand tapered rip. Stopped thinking. My fault... Fast food napkin and electrician's tape allowed me to finish the job. Vitamin E and Bourbon helped the healing process.
You could do a composite backing on the bottom of the thin design. The fiberglass would reinforce without adding a ton of weight.
Thankful that your injury wasn’t worse. NO, I didn’t need to watch your additional video content. The guitar stand is amazing and beautiful in its simplicity. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Thumbs up.... Even a bloody one! Love the project.
I appreciate you not showing the injury, and I'm glad you're okay. The piece is beautiful, as usual.
Love your videos. So talented.
Glad you’re still strumming with all digits
Glad you've still got all your digits and hope you continue to keep them. Awesome guitar stand!
Thank you for not making me look at the injury. Cool hanger.
For making the wedge base, have a look at the woodworkers journal, “how to make a pizza peel” video. Basically what you are doing but putting it through a drum sander instead.
Dude !!! Now you can tell people you can build something amazingly beautiful with 1 hand…
VERY NICE WORK !!!
I’m inspired! I built some MCM speaker stands with boomerang supports… inverse of this. Love the homage
Thank you for sharing 👍👍. The stand came out nice.
That tapered base. You could take the approach you already did and cut the bevel on the thin end to get it started. Then use the sled on the planer as planned. But. Stop just shy of the planer cutting on that end. Sneak up towards it. Then sand to finish and cover any transition remaining. This would avoid force on the end that could cause deformation. Note: you’d need guides clamped to your planer bed to ensure the sled always goes through square to the cutting head.
Nice piece of work. Without the back story, I don’t think anyone would have suspected it didn’t go as planned. I appreciate hearing where you had to pivot as I have had too and I'm sure for many others too.
Tapered bread board for that thin front end 🤙
Nice build. I'm glad the fingers all good!
That's really pretty. Regarding your thoughts on the base plate of the stand: I prefer the thicker, beveled version. It accentuates the work you did in creating that grain direction and also serves as a more robust and stable platform for the stand. If you're the kind of guy who is going to pay for a custom guitar stand, it's probably going to hold an expensive guitar too. Best if that doesn't go ass over teakettle.
Love the experiment. Love that you shared your injury with us eventually. Love that you've healed up well!
Turned out really cool. Glad you weren't more seriously hurt.
Gave my thumb a Deep Dip with a chisel one time. DONT CUT TOWARD YOUR HANDS
Had to visit doc. They glued but should have stitched. It healed fine. Significant scar.
I've found that after gluing and clamping two pieces of wood together using a wet cloth with cold glue works like a charm to get rid of squeeze out. It does raise the grain, but saves you the hassle of having to sand the glue off.
Regardless how this stand came about, it’s beautiful. Some of my favorite things I’ve made, have been because I had to pivot in my design. Well done.
Of course you can play the guitar…
Great design, but still getting over the sting of the joie-de-vivre God must have felt when you were being assembled ;-)
PS glad your main instrument has healed flawlessly!
11:00 for next time, consider cutting a mortise into the base and cutting the stand a little longer so that the last part is a large tenon. This way the tip of the curve is not so thin and flimsy.
If you used the sandwich 'inlay' style with the base you could add 5 or 6 strips of brass or bronze. Then put it on the sled and through a drum sander.
Absolutely beautiful!
"Basic" projects like this can be so beautiful, simple looking yet very enchanting. Thanks for haring this and other grusomes with us. I did a similar chopping thing with a fully sharpened kitchen knife. Still missing part of a fingetip....
Beautiful piece of work. Glad to see the thumb is completely healed.
BEAUTIFUL, my guitar player would wet himself if i got/made this for him.
Thank you for soldiering through your injury and putting out this fantastic video. 👍👍
Take care,
-Jonny5🥁
Cool build dude!
That looked cool. A gift idea for my daughter. Thanks! You might add complacency with belt sander as a good way to f up your thumb too. What about tension rods down each side? You could hide them to retain the slim profile. And it's guitarish.
Glad you’re recovered with what appears minimal long term damage and loved the build. Well done.
blessing in disguise! now you're more aware and you have a memory for life but your thumb is ok!
I’ve used leather cord to wrap the hook on my walnut stands. It gives a little padding for the headstock and I feel it compliments walnut very well.
Good looking build.
Interesting timing as I am building a bass with maple and walnut laminated top and back. Thanks for sharing.
That stand is absolutely beautiful. To address your concern about the hanger potentially damaging the headstock, I'll agree with others and suggest inlaying thick leather or cork just proud of the surface where the headstock makes contact. I only say inlay so it seems like a feature rather than an afterthought.
Glad your hand is okay! Also liked that you went with the walnut and brass over the yellow cord. Would be cool to do a bent all brass version that you could slip the foam protectors onto!
The stand is absolutely awsome)))))
For the hook, a simple solution would be to attach some foamy material there, or just use the chair leg felt (sold in IKEA). Sold in small pads or in big sheets, so I just cut a stripe of the necessary size.
I made a trolley for harp transportation (my daughter plays harp), for the sake of making it lightweight I used plywood, and the spot where harp back of the deck touches the plywood, i just covered with that felt. Looks nice, the felt does not look like smth odd, works perfectly well.
In your case just take a black felt.
Thanks for your videos 😊
I would love to see more smaller project vids. I know they don't turn as big of a profit as the big furniture pieces but, still cool..
A nice pass at a first draft. 1 and 3/4 thumbs up.
Beautiful!
If you wanted to do the wedge base you could do a glue up of the top half with angled grain and then for the bottom you could do long grain going the full length so it would be like a two ply plywood layup with not exactly alternating grain. You could have the glue line at the transition of the small chamfer and since both prices would be end grain on the leading edge it might not be that noticeable. Or you could really lean into the brass walnut materials theme and epoxy the top wedge to a brass plate.
You'll be ok, I've smashed both of my thumbs and neither of them have any feeling anymore!!
Really nice stand to!!
Simple and yet a very beautiful piece
Turned out very nice!
Glad you are OK. This is a good reminder to stay vigilant. The stand turned out really nice. All the complex angles and the inlay make it a really interesting piece. Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful piece. Really glad we got to see this project. Thanks for sharing!
Let me start by saying "I'm not a woodworder", but I like the tapered base better as well. I may be off base here, but I've always heard that laminated wood is stronder than solid wood, and less likely to distortion, e.g. plywood, MDF, etc. Perhapse you could construct the base out of multiple layers and eliminate the concern for warping or deforming. Love you channel!
Awesome pivot in style on the piece. Great job.
I like the way this one turned out and really look forward to seeing how your "much cooler" design turns out. I'm happy you weren't hurt worse and are healing well.
I have a strat myself and I have to say this is the (by far) nicest guitar hanger I've ever seen. One day I'll hopefully manage to do something even remotely similar to this.
I have had the exact same injury, so I know what it looks like 😂. I'm glad you're ok!
Glad your thumb is ok...thanks for sharing this build. Enjoyed it and your playing at the end!
I like the stand you came up with, but I prefer the stand that cradles the guitar around the lower bout and the guitar leans back into the upper cradle.
Hey Chris, congrats on the work.
Sorry for the accident.
Maybe in the hanger you could cut some inlays to put a “hidden” pad or rubber where the guitar touches. So the outside would maintain the same look.
I like the skunk stipe and even the extension on the base - gives the guitar a nice surrounding. Thumbs up for not showing your thumb.
That's a very cool stand... Awesome job my friend...
I did similarly in 1982 when doing wood machining at night school on an industrial overhead router (no CNC routers then). I believe my mistake was due to the fact that after turning the router off, the motor sound stopped and a spinning bit when not engaged with timber almost looks stationary. My thumb discovered this wasn't the case. Thanks for your honesty.
If you are concerned that the base might "warp" if tapered down to 5mm, You may be able to get a similar tapered effect if the base was laminated with 2 dissimilar coloured timbers (top and bottom) with the top (walnut) tapering down to 5mm whilst the contrasting colour is a consistent 10mm thick.
There are a lot of woodworking videos to catch up on now I have retired. I look forward to the quality videos that you produce. Cheers
Glad to here your ok , had a few minor shop injuries myself in the last 40 years , nice project
Nice Strat!
This is beautiful. Instantly shot up my list of your fav vids. The walnut and brass is _perfect_ together, and good call abandoning foam for a walnut hook. Looks mint.
That's how you know it was bad -- your body said "you can't handle that..." so it shuts off the pain.
Glad the injury wasn’t serious, but also glad that you continued to work with the new physical limitations. It’s a great piece, I don’t play guitar but can appreciate the aesthetic and display of the instrument. Great work as always!
I make tapered wood cores for skis using a taper jig just like you proposed for your base. Sending it through the planer is no problem. I even taper to less than ⅛" thick. As long as it's double stick taped to the jig, the planer does just fine.
Since you asked...I would cut that wedge on the CNC. Either build the same reverse wedge jig you take about and flatten it like you table tops, or attach it to the table and use a ball-nose bit.
I see your good idea, and raise you adding a nice bookmatched veener pattern on top, should look nice and be very guitar appropriate.
Very Nice piece. Now it’s time to get a sliding table saw
My first thought was, oh no, Chris cut his thumb on his table saw. He should have a Saw stop saw. Glad it wasn't too bad. Great project.
The gaskets you can get to go around windows and doors that stick on so they soft close would be perfect to go on the part where the stand contacts the guitar, iy wouldn't be overly gordy and likely unnoticeable when the guitar is on it, while protecting the head.
prettiest prototype ever!
Since you asked for ideas… maybe a black power coated aluminum plate bolted to the bottom.
Glad your fingers are ok now and thank you so much for all the spectacular videos.
I’d go steel since additional weight down low will add to stability to prevent tipping.
I’ve missed the acoustic music in your videos, sounds great!
I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin not quite a year ago. I have full function in the finger now, and I can say it hurt some in the moment, but it hurt a lot more the next morning at the urgent care when they peeled off the gauze we'd used to protect the wound. Unlike your thumb, though, the scar tissue is quite visible on my hand.
Glad you are fine and it wasn't any worse. My shop accident was the band saw of all things. Just lost focus for a second and got caught. I am good, but, I certainly won't get complacent again that is for sure. Love the videos and have an awesome day!
Complacency results in more 'accidents' than almost anything else. "I had done that 100 times before."
It's beautiful
My hubby has a guitar stand similar to this and he loves it 😍
I realize its likely only because the video is about a guitar stand, but I enjoyed the acoustic bit toward the end - took me back to the Foureyes in the garage days. Also, glad you didn't get hurt any worse!
👍👍 a thin piece of black felt on the hook contact points will soften the neck support 😜
To add to what one of the current top comments says (they said cut the wedge on the CNC), and while it's on the CNC, route out some channels on the bottom for some epoxy to help it keep its shape. Don't be afraid to make the wedge a little thicker to give yourself enough room for some bottom support. I imagine that little bit of extra weight would help with overall stability too.
I had no idea you’re the one who was playing the guitar in your videos. Love the design! I feel like the wood from the headstock and the stand will scuff each other up over time. But in the end (at the risk of sounding super pretentious) that gives character and story to each one. And proves they’re not just looking pretty but also functional and in use.
I love "The whole point is to learn for a better version"