Category Archives: Safety

Ouch

You may have missed a blog post the other day. In addition to spending the whole weekend at tech for Slave Shack at the Algonquin Theatre, I went ahead and stuck a screw gun into my hand. Natalie cleaned and bandaged my wound, but at the end of the day, about 8 hours later, it was [...]
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The Ten Most Dangerous Tools in Carpentry

I found a great post at ToolCrib about the ten most dangerous woodworking tools. What makes it great is that it attempts to survey what woodworkers think are the most dangerous tools in the shop, and also lists the statistics about the most common injuries from woodworking shops. Often, what we think are the most [...]
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Prop guns

There’s an interesting post over at Controlbooth.com about the correct handling of prop guns. What makes this a success is that we SEVERELY LIMIT who touches the guns, how, where, and when. Guns are NEVER ‘dry fired’. That is, fired without a live round in ‘em. In our world, if you pull the trigger, you are [...]
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