respect your body (lesson learned)

[mjncad]

I love how fast you heal when your young.

I hope that means you aren't going to injure yourself again so you can enjoy healing quicker than old farts like me. :laughing:

 

[deereman75]

I hope that means you aren't going to injure yourself again so you can enjoy healing quicker than old farts like me. :laughing:

:laughing: I will take it easy for a while, dont want to hurt them again.

 

[jmurray01]

I always joke that I must burn lots of calories with the amount of typing I do every day, but I hope that isn't going to catch up with me...

 

[arrow]

What kind of carving were you doing DM? or I should say what types of cutting tools were you using. If you were doing relief type carving with small hand cutters, you can continue after you heal abit but use a small wooden mallet with small wood chisels. Much easier on the hands for now.

 

[deereman75]

What kind of carving were you doing DM? or I should say what types of cutting tools were you using. If you were doing relief type carving with small hand cutters, you can continue after you heal abit but use a small wooden mallet with small wood chisels. Much easier on the hands for now.

I was doing the opposite. Trying sculpture with an adze I forged. Adze worked well, just did too much too fast. I have got back to bowl turning though, I hope to start selling them soon, to fund new tools.

 

[arrow]

I was doing the opposite. Trying sculpture with an adze I forged. Adze worked well, just did too much too fast. I have got back to bowl turning though, I hope to start selling them soon, to fund new tools.

I remember when I first started sculpting. Because of my profession, I was no weakling in any sense of the word but with a chisel and a large sculptors mallet, my forearms just kind of "lumped up" into these rock hard painful mass of bunched up muscle at the end of the session. It was like having a charlie horse in your forearms. Made me appreciate Michelangelo. That dude must have had arms like Popeye.

 

[deereman75]

I remember when I first started sculpting. Because of my profession, I was no weakling in any sense of the word but with a chisel and a large sculptors mallet, my forearms just kind of "lumped up" into these rock hard painful mass of bunched up muscle at the end of the session. It was like having a charlie horse in your forearms. Made me appreciate Michelangelo. That dude must have had arms like Popeye.

They say you can tell a blacksmith because one arm is 2x the size of the other. I bet the sae goes for sculpters.

 

[nwngunner]

I was about 20 when i had to have both hands operated on. I was with in a couple of months of loosing use of my hands, the nerve damage was getting so bad. The pain was gone, i had no feeling left in my hands. I didnt even really realize i had an issue, other then when i was typing. My letters would get turned around, and i couldnt figure out wth was going on. Then one day my hand got slammed in a car door and never felt it. I knew i had an issue.

 

[deereman75]

I was about 20 when i had to have both hands operated on. I was with in a couple of months of loosing use of my hands, the nerve damage was getting so bad. The pain was gone, i had no feeling left in my hands. I didnt even really realize i had an issue, other then when i was typing. My letters would get turned around, and i couldnt figure out wth was going on. Then one day my hand got slammed in a car door and never felt it. I knew i had an issue.

Well I hurt them again stacking wood, so I can still feel them. I really do have to take it easier... It seems as long as I am not lifting, I am fine.

 

[nwngunner]

its easy to think you hurt your hands, when in all reality you have pinched a nerve in your back. Doesnt take but one turn or a twist and your hurting and hurting bad.