Ow, Fuck. Workshop safety advice.

Diglach Mac Cein · Post by **Diglach Mac Cein** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:47 pm

Hospital "surgery caps" - usually cheap, disposable, and they will do the job. My cousin is a nurse with REALLY (like below the hips) hair, and fits it all in one for her work.

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Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:33 pm

Scary reminders. Mine's long enough to reach the kidneys, more or less. Trimmed it back a bit not too long ago, had been down to my belt.

Ponytail with multiple ties, or braid. Tucked down the shirt.

I got over that "common solution" schreiber implemented at about age ten

RenJunkie · Post by **RenJunkie** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:16 pm

I apologize for laughing. It's not that you getting hurt was funny (it's not, glad you didn't get a catastrophic injury), but it was the way you described it. Especially the cat and bag of peas.

I do what Hrolf does. The topnot half pulled thru.

Tho I should get mine cut back to about mid spine.....

Christopher

J.G.Elmslie · Post by **J.G.Elmslie** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:36 pm

no need to apologise for laughing.

it was, after all, rather something to mock me for. I'm pretty sure the little ginger whinger scooting round my feet has been laughing at me most of the last day, in her own way. "look at the stupid food ape..."

and it's always good to have a reminder. wakes you up from getting complacent - the better part of 15 years observing safety as a sculptor, and never had an accident like that, and one freak chance changes all that.
could've easily stopped it forever, if I'd not been lucky.

today it's some hairnets in the post for me, and the side of my head black and blue. was one hell of a whack I had...

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:20 pm

mattmaus wrote:Soak it in epoxy. Then hang upside down till it dries.

Not only will it keep it out of the drill, it will look bitchin cool.

As well as seriously workin' Nemesis' look in The Incredibles.

J.G.Elmslie · Post by **J.G.Elmslie** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:36 pm

Konstantin the Red wrote:
mattmaus wrote:Soak it in epoxy. Then hang upside down till it dries.

Not only will it keep it out of the drill, it will look bitchin cool.

As well as seriously workin' Nemesis' look in The Incredibles.

nah, I stopped looking like an extra member of Sigue Sigue Sputnik when I left art college....

RenJunkie · Post by **RenJunkie** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:08 pm

Maybe Vegeta from Dragonball Z?

Or Wayne Static

Suzerain wrote:nah, I stopped looking like an extra member of Sigue Sigue Sputnik when I left art college....

Christopher

losthelm · Post by **losthelm** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:13 pm

one more option would be a rasta hat.
Cheap running under 20 and plenty of room for long hair.
Not sure if it will fit under a welding mask or bump cap/hardhat.