Hoping this hasn't been done already

I've only ever had two incidents with my models.

The first was when I was sat on the floor and painting my models on our low table with my case at my side. As work progressed I realised I need to shuffle across so i picked up my metal case which resembles a brief case with one hand and stood up to carry it. I'll mention at this point that i had been lazy as I had left the lid open and my other hand was holding a model i was compressing until the glue held. As I began to walk over I tilted it slightly causing the lid to swing closed, leaving me with a dilema, do I drop the box to save a injury and risk damage to my models, or do I take the hit and save the models? ....
... ... ... It took 4months for my thumb nail and skin to fully heal after it cracked it and indented a large gash at the top of my nail.

Another time I was cutting models off the sprue, and even though I knew in the back of my mind my finger was in the way I for some unknown reason continued to cut a thick piece of plastic sprue with great force, ending up by removing a 10mm by 5mm chunk of flesh from my index finger requiring medical attention.



Yes I'm aware that I was fairly stupid and possibly deserved them both lol

Have any of you dakkaties suffered some nasty or just painful injuries during the pursuit of your hobby?

I once pierced my thumb on a chaos undivided symbol. Them things are sharp.

Had one this past sunday.
Impaled my forearm on a clubmate's %$^%$^ piece of CoD terrain.

%^#&^%&^%& spikes.

As to the 'hoping this thread hasn't been done before' - ooh boy, are you sooooo wrong about that. Pretty much at least once a month.

My index fingers are cover with scars from 20+ years of lackluster x-acto knife work. I know you should cut away from yourself, but sometimes you just "can't".

I got mauled by a Space hulk genestealer. Freaking thing clawed my thumb.

My fingers are constantly cut up from files and scalpels. And then you put the alcohol based hand sanitisers on them for work. Pain ensues.

Sorry but this type of thread has been done already.
There is both a 'Worst modelling injury' and a 'Most recent modeling injury' thread.

Mods: I would like to see the 'Most recent injury' thread stickied (with blood). It's kinda fun! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/247403.page#825461

I too admit to being spiked by the Space Hulk Genestealers in the last 48 hrs!

I drilled through the nail on my thumb with my Dremel tool.

Just the usual - scalpel slicing the fingers is fairly common for me + the old 'super glue on fingers' shenanigans

My most recent one? That would be the multitude of scratches and raw fingers from assembling some Dark Elf Corsairs. They have realistically sharp swords, I'm sure of it.

Before I even started the hobby, I read one of these 'horrific modeling injury' threads, and since then I've been using them as a bible on what NOT to do.

So far my worst injury is snipping off a chunk of dried super glue, and having it fly up and hit me in the eye.

I have cut my pointer finger and thumb so many times with my exacto knife that I've lost count. Some cuts were pretty deep.

Since it usually happens when cleaning metal minis, I have taken to wearing a leather glove when I have to trim the mold lines off metal. I sometimes wear it with plastic minis, too.

*double post*

Sat on a night goblin last week, didn't sit down again for about three hours

Beastmen spears are pretty nasty, never reach blindly into a dark box full of them..... its kinda like a punji trap.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Sorry but this type of thread has been done already.
There is both a 'Worst modelling injury' and a 'Most recent modeling injury' thread.

Mods: I would like to see the 'Most recent injury' thread stickied (with blood). It's kinda fun! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/247403.page#825461

I too admit to being spiked by the Space Hulk Genestealers in the last 48 hrs!

One better. YOu can edit the wiki and put your scars here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/War%28gaming%29_Injuries

Ha! Never spotted that. Thanks Malfred, now i'll know where to go next time I have a paint pot lodged in my temple after an hilarious pet induced modeling accident!

Trying to file ork Kommando, slipped and recovered it just in time to jam the file under the thumbnail, got it in there a good cm + I actually debated leaving the blood on the blade....

most serious was building a V2 rocket replica. A slipped hobby knife cut into my index finger almost to the bone. Whenever I play bass I still feel the nerve pinch.

That was 6 years ago.

Up until last weekend i used to pride myself on my worst hobby related injury being pricking my thumb on a plastic goblin spearman.

However.... last Saturday I was waiting for the girlfriend to turn up, she was running late so i thought that i would get on with cleaning up the terminators from Space Hulk. I was plonked in front of the telly with all my files and clippers happily beavering away and must have lost track of time, there was a knock on the door and i jumped up from the sofa without thinking. At that point I felt a tingling in one of my toes, i looked down to see that said toe was impaled by my hobby knife After some swearing i managed to get the knife out and answer the door. The girlfriend seeing my foot covered in blood took sympathy and agreed to play a game of Space Hulk with me, so it wasn't all bad

About a week and a half ago I sliced the inside edge of my pointer finger, right at the joint under the tip. Bled through two band-aids, and is scarring as we speak.

Blood for the hobby god!

I installed a magnet with the wrong polarity on my SM Commander Arm and needed to take it out. So, i decided to drill through his shoulder and force it out with my pin drill before the superglue dries. Well, the magnet popped out with alot of force and the drill bit speared through my thumb.

My worst model injury was the day i casted models
it was prince august mold i melted white metal and when i wanted to put it in the mold i missed it and drop the hot lead my hand ,getting a 3 rd degree burnt ( 15 years ago i still have the scars !)

I lost most of my little finger on my left hand due to a dremelling acident.

I like super glued my hand to my chest, when I made my first Chaos Marine's. I had to tear out skin and hair to use my hand again.... yuckie D:

hmm... i think i remember glueing every single part of a guardsman to myself before... and my friend melted most of a necron warrior in plastic glue before... that same warrior is now mine. another of my friends COMPLETELY melted down a troop (cant remember what it was.) the little plastic men- the real casulties of modeling (in the wrong hands) may we ever mourn thier passing.

worst I've done is glue a magnet to my index finger. It set so quickly and so flush I had to cut around it with an x-acto until I had all the glued layers of skin seperated; thank the Empr0rz for sharp knives!

Speaking of which, sharp knife+cutting away from you=saves you from 95% of cutting injuries. A stuck/stuttering blade is a deadly one. It seems slightly counter intuitive but sharper=safer, people!

I cut myself on Fenris (the WM character) and got a fair amount of blood on his swords. Which is rather fitting i might add.

One thing: Kroot guns hurt. 'Nuff said.

My pin vice fell off the table and stuck in my foot, it went so deep it supported itself, and its still healing.

TheFirstBorn wrote:My pin vice fell off the table and stuck in my foot, it went so deep it supported itself, and its still healing.

Similar episode for me ...

My exacto rolled off the table and landed upright in my thigh. Thankfully it was a new blade and went in smooth like an olympic diver !! Still hurt like hell, though !!!

Cut my fingers open a few times with modeling knives (I'm used to it though, I did 3D Design at college and had loads of scalpel accidents , believe me when I say that I saw some nasty accidents from other people in college...belt sanders + fingers and chisels + fingernails?)

Someone I know who used to work at GW slipped with a pin vice once- it went straight into his finger, down to the bone. His advice when I finally bought a pin vice myself was:

"Pin vices hurt. A LOT."

Obviously, not an injury, but I lose count how often I accidently stick my fingers together/to a model with super glue too. Good times.

I've got way too many scars on my hands. Scalpels are sharp. And I keep gluing my fingers together..
By collecting chaos and 'Nids I've received lots of injuries from spiky stuff - thanks GW.

I cut a rather deep gash on my left index finger and it really hurt i nearly passed out and hey i have a nice scar too

I have a habit of painting/modelling whilst listening to the TV, nothing on that actuallly requires my full attention.
When I first got together with my wife, on the rare quiet moment I was converting a white metal Model, forget which, Instead of using Clipper to remove the excess sprue I used the knife. Unfortunately it was not that sharp where I first started cutting, I kept at it until suddenly I found the sharp part or the Knife and cut clear through the Model, my trousers and cut a 10" gash in my leg.

The wife was the first to notice, due the my blood splattering over her.

What followed was some first aid, a trip in an ambulance, and a short stay in the Hospital.

I still painting/modelling whilst listening to the TV, still nothing on that’s actually worth watching, but there now a modelling board on my lap, that has saved a repeat performance once or twice, this was the wife’s idea, now she'd probability leave me to bleed to death and claim on the Life Insurance

Myrthe wrote:

TheFirstBorn wrote:My pin vice fell off the table and stuck in my foot, it went so deep it supported itself, and its still healing.

Similar episode for me ...

My exacto rolled off the table and landed upright in my thigh. Thankfully it was a new blade and went in smooth like an olympic diver !! Still hurt like hell, though !!!

Don't know how many times when I've leaned over to the floor to get something out of my box of supplies and heard my X-acto rolling across the unlevel desk and had to jump back to keep it from dive-bombing into a body part. Because you know, if you just sit still and hope it'll land butt-end first or hit the floor, it's going to do just what was quoted above.

It finally drove me to put a triangular lump of green stuff on my knife to keep it from rolling.

man, when i'm not using my xacto, i keep a blob of wall putty around the blade, doesn't roll, and if it falls the putty keeps me safe

Oh, I learned a "pointed" lesson that day, that's for sure !! From then on, I've only used x-acto knives with either a cap or a clip (like a pen) or, ideally, both !!

i was messing around with heating up models (as you do) to get them to beng, to make interesting poses (tyranid tails for example) anyways, i was quite tired on the day and for some reason i decided to take a boiling water soaked, almost melting hot model out of the saucepan and then drop it on my forarm. i now have a big pink scar to remind me that melting models is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

I cut fingers with a hobby knife accidently.
As well as some skin riping off after i superglued some fingers together

Khornholio wrote:My index fingers are cover with scars from 20+ years of lackluster x-acto knife work. I know you should cut away from yourself, but sometimes you just "can't".

Yea, my father told me as a very young person to always cut away from myself. I usually did, and now I always do. Many years ago when I was 17 I filleted my right thumb with an exacto knife. Nine stitches down the tip, three through the nail. Ruined my dart game, but I have a unique thumbprint now. Ironically, the piece I was cutting to use as a sword for an early edition Dragon Ogre, I didn't even end up using.

whatwhat wrote:I once pierced my thumb on a chaos undivided symbol. Them things are sharp.

The most painful, was having a SM with a pointing finger, stab me in the thumb tip (Im still not sure how the hell that worked out) but it bled like CRAZY and hurt for days

Twice when I was using my electric grinder on some of my space marine heads, I lost my grip on the heads and they flew up and hit me in the eye. Now I always wear safty glasses when I grind anything. Other then that I have some super glue and cut injuries.

i shanked my self in the side of my hand with exacto knife it wasnt a cut but more of a stab after impaling it even more by hitting it against my knee first though deep cut, apply preasure of hand to jeans i now own a pair of red jeans

Taking a Space Hulk Genestealer off the sprue.

Quick tip: Rending Claws REND!

Went all the way into my Thumb. I did not like it.

I try to avoid modelling whilst drunk now. Always ends in pain, the GW modelling saw is the worst, i sliced down to the bone between my thumb and index finger with it whilst trying to butcher a killa kan for gubbins. had to call my mate to rush me to a&e as i couldn't drive. to this day i have never seen so much blood and my mate has never forgiven me for bleeding all over his car!

Let it be known that Chaos terminators make excellent caltrops when trophy racks are installed. Particularly the metal ones.
I was limping for a week after an ill advised dash for the phone into a dark hobby room... missed the phone call too.

i use a medium thickness plastic glue..... on the back of the bottle it has a HUGE label that says its a fast skin bonder. got some my finger.... rubbed a itchy closed eye..... three hours of putting scalding hot water on my eye and rubbing to get it off.... mom still never found out

Years ago when I got into the hobby my little brother was playing with my goblins as I went to bed. First thing the next morning I jumped out of bed to find myself standing on a unit of the old plastic spearmen. I spent two days in the hospital having spear tips removed from my foot, and I was on crutches for a month.

Cut my thumb open with an exacto blade twice. Same thumb too.

While shaving flash off a car model I was assembling (32 Ford 3-window if you're curious), I implanted the X-Acto knife into my right thumb. Didn't feel anything, and it didn't bleed, but it did do massive nerve damage. By that I mean that I can't feel it what-so-ever. As a result I never notice the cuts that leave the several lines of scars that now adorn my thumbprint from shaving flash/mold lines off of miniatures (never was too good at cutting away from myself...)

I was using a pin vice on one of the Orks in the AOBR set and I forgot how soft plastic gets when it heats up and what do you know I drill through the plastic and then straight into my finger.

once dropped a knife and impaled my left testicale OUCH!

I have done just about everything

Taking chunks out of fingers and thumbs with exacto knife
Sprue in the eye
Sitting on spears, pointy symbols, pointy hats, etc.
Superglue on hands
Superglue on face
Superglue on hands AND face

And the worst one was when i almost cut my thumb off with a razor saw, i had to go to the hospital
I was unconscious from blood loss and i had cut part way through the bone.

just yesterday i had two injuries. i was pulling apart a car radio, when i stabbed my wrist with srewdriver, and something flicked up and hit my open eye lol. ive had like 100+ metal glue on finger, then hurting finger from biting of the friggin glue. i also once somehow managed to get superglue on my tounge!!!!!!!!!!!!!

warboss spinetwizta wrote:once dropped a knife and impaled my left testicale OUCH!

You win one Internetz...

I am blind in one eye after i got superglue in it... dont know how but know i cant tell if someone if on the left of me.

I was eye-accidented too but in my case it didn't was so serious...

I was using superglue with my new Valquirie and I don't know how, in the next second the superglue was in my left eye. I was in the hospital, they put some strange liquids in my eye and I was well again in a few days.

Other accident that I had some years ago was with a metal chaos terminator. I was walking without shoes and I didn't see the terminator figure was fallen from the table. You can imagine how it finished...the unpainted chaos terminator looked like a khorne's berseker.

And, like all, I usually have some superglue in the fingers and small cutter injuries...

I have completely unnatural fingerprints on account of the many deep gashes that are now a permanent feature in the flesh of my fingertips. Damn hobby knife.

I've got a scar on my face where I managed to get part of a WiP terrain piece superglued to my forehead. I was really drunk when that happened (didn't find it until I woke up next morning either)

Also jammed the blade of my last hobby knife into my hand when it slipped. I promptly took a hammer to that knife, THEN went to get stitches once it was in an adequately destroyed state.

I don't have a mark from this, but I also managed to drop my hobby knife on my foot, blade down. That hurt.

And lastly, I once cut my finger open on an exceptionally sharp set of Assault Termie Lightning Claws


All this, paired with my drunken 'Ideas' (riding laundry baskets down my basement stairs, putting out cigars on my shoulders, trying to break a bottle on my head, etc...) has made me well known on a first-name basis with the staff in the Emergency Room of Royal Inland Hospital

I wear glasses so I am protected from most eye injuries (yaaay for polycarbonate!). My worst injuries have all come from continuing to use a blade that is far too blunt to trim stuff. Most recent injury of note was a moment of inattention leading to the knife being jammed into the muscle between thumb and fore-finger... I'm sure I saw a few different layers of flesh in there. Thankfully it didn't actually hurt very much and I now have a lovely 1cm long ultra-straight scar there

Myrthe wrote:
My exacto rolled off the table and landed upright in my thigh. Thankfully it was a new blade and went in smooth like an olympic diver !! Still hurt like hell, though !!!

This happened to me, but it actually bounced off. Thank the Emperor that the knife I dropped happened to be my old GS sculpting knife, so it's about as sharp as a baseball bat.

I've had my fair share of x-acto knife related cuts,some of them rather deep and messy.
However,it seems that super glue will be the way I do myself in,I've had several bad mishaps while attempting to unclog bottles,including shooting the super glue in to my eye,having a ruptured bottle glue my shirt to my chest,and on one memorable occasion,having a cloged bottle squirt out enough super glue to convert my goatee in to a gaint dreadlock.

I have a tendency to poke myself on the sharp claws of my Space Hulk genestealers, which sometimes leads to dropping them. I have since blunted their claws a tad with a file.

Today, I was studying a model I was painting and biting my nails, and bit too deep and drew blood. Does that count?

@Fitzz: Superglue: the new arch nemesis. Forget Chaos. I feel for you.

one time when I sat at a low table whatching TV and were killing mould lines wich a scalpel ( ), For some reson I hold my knife between my knees instead of laying it on the table, and when concentreted on other things I were stretching for something at the table and WOILA a straight and thin line on my underarm. It healed very fast and were not so dangerus but it were kinda stupid (lazy me).

Earlier today I cut myself with an old sculpting tool while cleaning old paint bottles...

I frequently forget where I put my x-acto knife, and on one fun occasion I reached into my large bitz box to grab a piece I needed and found my e-xacto blade pointing straight up, when it went thru my hand to the other side. Tetnis shot, and a couple stitches later and I was back to cutting.

For some reason, there's only ONE modeling tool that hasn't cut me...

The double-edged razor blade that I use without a handle to trim plastic minis. One of these days it's going to slice off my finger.

Lets just put it this way, on my modeling desk I have several very important things glue, x-acto, file, paints, bandages, tissue paper for paint/blood splatters, and first aid cream.......

Nearly required stitches from a slipped x-acto knife... I was actually trying to carve the sticky stuff from a sticker I no longer liked off my bitz box. Sigh.

What else... Mainly little pokes from slipped knives. Kind of sad, actually. Most of it could have been prevented.

Perhaps we should convince Legoburner to do a end-all poll on the psychological stability of a gamer with a knife. Apathy/laziness seems to be the leading cause of injuries, with downright stupidity and sharp models taking a close second.

Rico...

Wow it seems you could make a fortune selling tetnis shots to gamers hehehe. I have had all the obligitory cleaning model cuts but the one that hurt the most was a primered squad of DE got knocked on the floor by the dog. I walked into the room with the lights off and managed to step on a few of them with guns pointing up and some that managed to stand up after falling. Needless to say I had so many holes in my socks filled with blood that I left footprints on the carpet....and one pissed off wife hehehe.

Just about two weeks ago I cut the tip of my ring finger off with a poorly aimed X-acto knife trying to cut a wave serpent body from it's sprue. I was only using it because I couldn't find my clippers..... I found them the next day, much to my annoyance.

Assembling anything chaos / lizardmen, spikey bit injuries abound!

lol i am one of the 5% that would grab lawnchair and pocorn and yell jump bitch'.s

Yesterday, I was neatening up some metal figs, and I decided to get a sandwich...

So I make one, and as i'm coming back, I trip over the fu**ing carpet and fall on my little modelling table.

I impaled myself on my little steel ruler.

I now have a hideous ragged hole in my chest, and my dog ate my sandwich.

ld YOU ARE THE WINNER!

I glued myself to a chair.... enough said....

I used to cut myself all of the time and spilled superglue/plastic cement everywhere, having to shave it off my hands once it harded.

Within the last month I have been injury free despite assembling over 1 200 points worth of models. I don't mean five or so land raiders, I mean mostly infantry

I keep a bottle of nail polish remover near my workplace in case I get superglue on my hands. that stuff is a godsend because it eats the superglue up thus preventing a very annoying texture on my fingers. the acetone in the remover eats up the superglue and turns it into slippery wash down the sink.

I used to cut myself all of the time and actually kept a package of bandages near my work area, but I've learned many a lesson and don't cut myself anymore despite only modelling for less than six months.

Hmmm.. I might break some forum rules now, but if this is out of line, please remove this post, and I will remove the picture from my gallery.

This is what happend when I trimmed a bit of my Nurge DP wings.... The picture is after I have been stiched up at the hospital.... never cut agaist your own hand.... : ) I managed to cut away half of my thumb nail and made a deep cut into my hand whan I slipped. I used a carpet cutting razor....
Click the picture for a larger image.... : ) Maybe its my punishment for not sculptning the Blood God...
WARNING. NOT FOR THE WEAK MINDED.

I have and do often cut myself (or well I come disturbingly close) when I'm demolding things. I need to break down and get like a hoby file and not try to do everything with my knife....my poor dull knife ;( Edit: This thread has convinced me! New file is my next purchase!

I also can't count the times I've glued myself together, nothing serious has come of that though....yet.

Had a minor cut on left middle finger while sawing termy in half with a knife blade (w/out handle!!!!), nearest thing was bottle of superglue (gw stuff), one superglue 'accident' later and injury was solved...

Do not recommend this though, as in suitably large amounts the stuff is poisonous.

@ a94marbo: OH GOD, NOOOOOOOO!

That takes the cake. I put a hole in the other side of my thumb, but it was nowhere near that. I only had six stitches and they came out after about 2 weeks.

Harlequins are very pointy. Especially their swords. Right in my finger, then at least five minutes later, I held it in place (it was glueing), then after about ten minutes of pure holding, I stopped, moved my finger, and found a Troupe Master dangling off my finger (the blood still on his power sword). So, after a swift trip to the hospital, my middle finger is not what it used to be. Because of one figure.

ld YOU ARE THE WINNER!

WEWT!

I AM WINRAR!

anyway.... I just glued my cousin to a table!
Please say this counts as an injury!

i just cut 2 of my fingers, i did some maths and i cut my fingers over 20 times (except one which i never cut.

While popping off hero click models from there bases for chaos marines sliced 4 fingers wide opean with k-bar maby a little overkill but ran out of razors so grabbed what was handy did my own stitches man did that hurt!

I once drilled in my index finger with a dremel. I got lost in the act of making bullet holes.

I also cut my thumb rather bad, trying to reshape a chainsword.

Blood for the blood god!!!

I just started the hobby about a month ago and so far I have only had 2 injuries.

First while shaving the mold lines of an marine my Xacto knife slips and stabbed my index finger leaving a small puncture wound.
Second I knocked over some super glue without realizing it and glued my hand to the desk which requires some cuting away of skin.

I too started modeling just recently, so I don't have many injuries yet. But I do have a couple.

The first one still perplexes me to this day. I am right-handed, so I was trimming sprues off of a model (After clipping it!) with a scalpel in my right hand, model in my left. I'm not sure how, but the knife slipped to some extent that it went into my right thumb in two locations, giving me two mini scars on my thumb. Sadly, they have since healed over, but I still remember them as my first.

My second real accident was when I was doing the same as above (I know, I need some nice files to do the job instead of just the knife...I just know I'm going to lead my knife blade to an early grave the way I handle it at times) and was basically in total silence at my desk. Phone goes off, I'm startled for just a moment, and my knife ends up lodged in my thigh. Lucky it wasn't too deep, but I still remember feeling that knife go straight through my skin...

Oh, and if it counts, I didn't realize before that plastic models do nothing to weigh down a plastic container (I use plastic thread containers that are compartmentalized for storing infantry, bought at JoAnn's) when there's wind about. So while I'm outside using some rocks to weigh down newspaper on a folding card table, I hear a crash followed by me scrambling to try and save/find my still-drying models. Luckily the worst of my losses was a couple of arms, which I simply implemented on my models as war injuries.

Anyone else litterally clip off some of their thumb when trimming a piece flat. the skin seemes superficial anyway but hey there was alot of it.

i once got a nasty cut from somone throw those old pointy grots at me

I've an original one:

An airbrush malfunction filled the air in the immediate vicinity with rubbing alcohol and GW Skull White. I suffered a prolonged coughing fit.

Well this is kinda super fail... I opened the superglue and looked what it red in the bottom =) The result was my jeans stuck in my chair and me. It was like sooo much pain taking those jeans off...
And the other is just kinda grose. I managed to cut with a modelling knife roght to the bone. I allmost fainted when I saw my bone. YES bones are actually that white!

Owain wrote:I've an original one:

An airbrush malfunction filled the air in the immediate vicinity with rubbing alcohol and GW Skull White. I suffered a prolonged coughing fit.

That had to be fun to clean.

Here is one no one really admits to on your files the little rubber caps you take them off and then go to filling and jab the end of the file handel into your palm and all you can think of is why did I remove the protective rubber peice!

In the last month, I've impaled the palm of my hand on my Sanctum Imperialis about 4 times. It's never been serious, only drawing blood twice, but I'm sure it's dropping (less than) subtle hints to finish painting it!

Firstly, from constantly dropping things off my desk i have a habit where i automatically close my legs to stop what is falling! (im sure there is a little idea of where this is going)
i grab the toothpick pot with the tiny hole and begin to shake it to get one out at which point it comes out falls off the desk, my legs close and stab myself on both thighs with the toothpick ends!

Scaraman wrote:Firstly, from constantly dropping things off my desk i have a habit where i automatically close my legs to stop what is falling! (im sure there is a little idea of where this is going)
i grab the toothpick pot with the tiny hole and begin to shake it to get one out at which point it comes out falls off the desk, my legs close and stab myself on both thighs with the toothpick ends!

Owch I'v done that while welding I can feel your pain!

I've cut my thumb open so many times with scapels...usually so badly that i get a mini blood fountain. I now use a dull scalpel for most work and use pressure to make the cuts. No scars though, i guess thumbs heal well.

Scaraman wrote:Firstly, from constantly dropping things off my desk i have a habit where i automatically close my legs to stop what is falling! (im sure there is a little idea of where this is going)
i grab the toothpick pot with the tiny hole and begin to shake it to get one out at which point it comes out falls off the desk, my legs close and stab myself on both thighs with the toothpick ends!

I did this last month with my knife
It still hasn't healed fully yet.

UP very very late one night putting together an army on Nids and SMs I ended up falling asleep at my desk with the right side of my face down. I guess i don't remember falling asleep as i left the bottle of glue open on the desk and ended up glueing my right ear down to the table. woke up that afternoon ripping a good deal of skin off of my ear.