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Almost lost a finger at the dollhouse show in Tulsa because nobody warned me about the tiny table saw
I got into building miniature furniture 8 months ago and thought I was hot stuff until the Tulsa Miniature Show last Saturday. A vendor let me try his micro table saw on a walnut chair leg and the blade grabbed the wood and yanked my thumb in. I walked away with a bandage and a $45 tool I now clamp down every single time. Nobody at the hobby shop mentions that mini tools still cut like real ones, they just look cute. Does anyone else clamp their micro tools or am I the only one who learned this the hard way?
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emery_craig12d ago
Tulsa was my first show too and I watched a guy demo a micro lathe send a pen blank flying across three tables, so your thumb story tracks. The thing nobody says out loud is that a 2 inch blade spinning at 5000 rpm does not care that it fits in a shoebox, it will still open you up. I clamp everything now, even the tiny drill press, mostly because I got tired of chasing walnut across the garage floor. Cutting small parts is honestly scarier than full size stuff because your fingers are way closer to the danger zone. The cute factor is a trap and the hobby shop guys know it but never bring it up.
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kevin21812d ago
Buddy of mine got a mini table saw off a marketplace listing for like 40 bucks and thought he scored. First cut on a piece of oak trim, the thing grabbed it and pulled the wood and his hand right toward the blade, nicked two fingers before he even knew what happened. He said the worst part was how quiet it was, no big scary noise like a real saw, just a little whine and then blood on his workbench. He sold it the next week and bought a used full size one with a real fence and push sticks. Small tools make you lazy about safety because they feel like toys, but the ER bill is the same size either way.
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