let's get started with a story that a friend of mine once told me. He was building a 1/32nd revel F-4 phantom and while he was gluing the two half's of his fuselage with super glue his cat jumped off the cabinet and on to his work space, in the process the cat dumped his full bottle of super glue all over everything as well as half the bottle was (while wearing shorts) on his legs and crouch! A very painful moment for him and the cat! 
And one fateful swipe stuck the blade through my finger and into the bone. I no long use that blade for sprue work and, after a few colorful adjetives, actually tossed the blood sacrifice in the garbage imediately. The kit turned out great, by the way.
Not too long ago, I was slicing through some sprue with a #1 wood carving blade. Guess where this is going....
TomMy story is pretty simple. A few years ago I bought my condo. It was carpeted wall to wall in a perfect match for Dragon grey. I do a little extra scratch building now a days.
...............Al ..............PS ....and I do remember the eighties and the seventies and the sixties and the fifties. I'm soooo tired!!!!!!!
Who would have thought this is a dangerous hobby. I'm wearing my hard hat safety glasses and steel toe shoes from now on..........
!!)... I don't remember how, I lost control of the tool and I cut deeply my finger 
Suddenly because of the pain, I became to shake my hands squirting my blood all over the place... 
Well gentlemen now that I have your attention lol, here is my story.
It was in the late 80's and if you guys can remember that far back, dremel had put out some saw attachments for the dremel moto-tool. Well these saw blades were smaller versions of the table saw style. So anyway I was using my dremel saw to cut a thick piece of evergreen plastic for a diorama I was building when all of a sudden the saw blade bit and my dremel tool was jerked out of my hand and proceeded to move across the diorama destroying everything in its path! In a panic state I tried to turn it off by pulling the cord out of the wall socket! While trying to do so, still running and reaking havoc all over my table I felt an excruciating pain like nothing I felt before! The saw came off the table and into my leg, inner thigh to be exact! My gf at that time came running into the room of horror! It look like I had cut my leg off she said because there was so much loss of blood. She rushed me to the er to get stitched up! Doctors tol me that after all my trauma I loss 2 units of blood, came dangerously close to the femoral artery and needed 12 stitches. To this day I have never used the dremel saw blade attachments for anything! The modeling gods and my guarding angel were looking out for me!!!
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