{"id":53,"date":"2004-06-15T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:10","slug":"still-nothing-severed-yet-nasty-incident-with-a-wrench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/still-nothing-severed-yet-nasty-incident-with-a-wrench\/","title":{"rendered":"Still nothing severed yet: nasty incident with a wrench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on our dining room table a few days ago.  The table top is made from a glueup, and the whole design is similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000037you_got_your_slate_in_my_coffee_table_part_i.html\">coffee table<\/a> and is designed to match it, except in 5\/4 stock, 40&#8243;x78&#8243; big.  I was tightening the pipe clamps to draw together the glueup and it was sticking a bit, so I grabbed a big crescent wrench to get some more leverage.  As I was tightening it, the wrench slipped off and my fingernail slammed into the neighboring pipe clamp.<br \/>\nAs if the hellacious pain wasn&#8217;t enough, the glue was drying, so I had to finish tightening the other six clamps before I could haul my butt to the doctor&#8217;s office.  To give you some idea how bad this was, when I asked the doctor if I was going to lose the nail, he laughed at me.  So I spent the whole weekend taking Vicodin and playing Baldur&#8217;s Gate (fortunately the ring finger isn&#8217;t used on the xbox controller).  Tomorrow I&#8217;m seeing a hand specialist, and the good doctor said something about &#8220;drill&#8221;, so I&#8217;m not expecting it to be a pleasant visit.<br \/>\nSo the big moral of the story is that you need to be every bit as careful with hand tools as you do with power tools.  I can&#8217;t believe I did all this damage to my hand with a crescent wrench!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(my last entry seems to have conclusively demonstrated that nobody reads the extended entries&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grabbed a big crescent wrench to get some more leverage.  As I was tightening it, the wrench slipped off and my fingernail slammed into the neighboring pipe clamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}