Ack!

[Furt]

You'll mend soon enough! 

Did you have to explain how you did your injury in the hospital?

[Ray Rivers]

Behold the terror that is... FRANKENTHUMB!

Well done!   

You have to try sinking the blade into your thigh... but I would let the thumb heal first.   

[Hammers]

Boys... Ask you mums to help you next time you use anything sharper than a spoon. 

[commissarmoody]

Boys... Ask you mums to help you next time you use anything sharper than a spoon. 

Hush you! 

[Bugsda]

That Which Doesn't Kill Us Makes us Stronger.

Yeah, but Neitze was a  hypochondriac that never painted a figure in his life! 

That looks a bad one, my own personal war story involves instinctively catching a dropped scalpel between my knees 

I also unknowingly dropped an offcut of steel spear in a trainer, found it a day later when it went into my foot while in a  restaurant 

Anyway, no pain no gain 

[Hammers]

Yeah, but Neitze was a  hypochondriac that never painted a figure in his life! 

That looks a bad one, my own personal war story involves instinctively catching a dropped scalpel between my knees 

I also unknowingly dropped an offcut of steel spear in a trainer, found it a day later when it went into my foot while in a  restaurant 

Anyway, no pain no gain 

Mine was grabbing the business end of a soldering iron.

[Heldrak]

What you need for Christmas
http://www.weivo.com/meat-mincer/steel_mesh_gloves.htm

I just took a bunch of them off bases too only a slight stab i got off lucky

Thanks, I was thinking that I should invest in some kind of chainmail oyster-shucker's glove... 

[Christian]

Youch! I can't say I've sustained any huge injuries from hobby tools... yet. Hope you get better soon! (And hopefully you didn't dribble any gore on to the package you're sending me )

[Froggy the Great]

At camp one day (and there can be no good end for any story that begins this way) I was woodburning a project.  I nicked my knuckle with the wood-burner, and of course I dropped it...on my leg.

[Heldrak]

Youch! I can't say I've sustained any huge injuries from hobby tools... yet. Hope you get better soon! (And hopefully you didn't dribble any gore on to the package you're sending me )

No fear, your figures went out before "the incident"  I do find it is much, much harder to pack figures without the full use of both thumbs, though...! 

[FramFramson]

Still bloody hurts though 

The trick is not minding that it hurts.

[Gun bunny]

WOW, frankenthumb is scary .try cutting sprue into rubble with a medium size wire cutter and then finding out that your left middle finger is too close to the sprue! let me tell you it really throws cold water on the whole creative urge. 

[SBRPearce]

From the website "Learn From My Fail":

"When you knock a razor-sharp carving chisel off the benchtop, let it fall. Catching it turns out to be a bad idea..."

[Heldrak]

Updated picture of Frankenthumb sans bandage here (not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach...):

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Self/?action=view&current=Photo25.jpg

Now you can see why I named it Frankenthumb...! 

[Hammers]

Updated picture of Frankenthumb sans bandage here (not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach...):

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Self/?action=view&current=Photo25.jpg

Now you can see why I named it Frankenthumb...!  

Jesus... I just felt my gonad retract up my abdomen.