Todd Johnson saved my life!

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:03 am

Because of some advice Todd gave on this board, and my wife's insistance, I recently purchased a painter's "gas mask." Yesterday I was sanding a large-ish bent egg on my disc sander. With a not so great grip I (read stupidly) moved the stummel to the right side of my counter-clock-wise spinning sanding disc. Suddenly, the demon that haunts my workshop slapped the stummel out of my hand and the sanding disc launched it at my face. It clocked me square in my........................... new gas mask. It dinged the frickin' thing! I figure, based on the location of the ding, that it would have hit me square in the face. If it hand't knocked out a tooth, it would have certainly split my lip.

Thank you Todd Johnson... whoever you are!

This story, while sad, is completely true.

ArtGuy · Post by **ArtGuy** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:55 am

What a Nancy Boy. A real Artisan would have caught the stummel in their teeth.

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:57 am

LOL... THAT was funny!

Hey! Quit trying to show up my humor!

alexanderfrese · Post by **alexanderfrese** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:10 pm

Yeah, imagine – without the mask… What could have been the consequences? Ah, I read it somewhere else on the forum… No other way than to get back to coarse sanding – on your front teeth. Or maybe try a new rustication technique? Use the tooth for some never-seen-before stem inlay made of bone?

There's a saying here in Germany: Who is in trouble, doesn't have to wait for the mockery. Transscripted somewhat directly. Is there something similar in English?

Alex

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:13 pm

alexanderfrese wrote: Use the tooth for some never-seen-before stem inlay made of bone?

There was a time when every pipe I made had some blood embedded in it somewhere :thumb:

There's a saying here in Germany: Who is in trouble, doesn't have to wait for the mockery. Transscripted somewhat directly. Is there something similar in English?

Not that I know of...

LexKY_Pipe · Post by **LexKY_Pipe** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:57 pm

Okay, let's see the gas mask that saved the tooth!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:15 pm

Man! Glad to hear you're OK Ben. That would have bit!

hehehe - ok when I wrote that I really didn't mean to pun, but I'll leave it.

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:48 pm

LexKY_Pipe wrote:Okay, let's see the gas mask that saved the tooth!

I think I'll post it to the website (and post here too) when I find out why my CF card reader quit reading cf cards...

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:42 pm

ArtGuy wrote:What a Nancy Boy. A real Artisan would have caught the stummel in their teeth.

Real artisans have endured flying stummels knocking lit pipes out of their teeth. Some of us have even been treated to sucking on the ends of stems as the flying stummel (or chisel, as the case may be) cleanly detaches the bowl from the stem and embeds it in the wall behind us. 8O

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:47 pm

Todd works in mysterious ways...

Jeff

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:07 pm

jeff wrote:Todd works in mysterious ways...

Jeff

LOL

JMB · Post by **JMB** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:14 pm

jeff wrote:
Todd works in mysterious ways...

Jeff

And places 8O