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As to the cuts, burns and such, I guess we all pay our dues. Once I was making a gunstock war club. I burned through the stock by heating the tang and forcing it through. My plan was to heat the rat tail tang with my Map gas torch to get it red hot, then curl it to keep it tight and so it couldn’t slip out it’s hole. Best laid plans....I had the whole piece in my vise and when I got the tang hot, I bumped the vise handle and the whole piece flipped over, and the red hot pointed tang also flipped around, pierced my hand through between my thumb and index finger, just south of the webbing between them. Pinned my hand to the table. Note to self, never ever do that that way ever again. Dumb NTM’s News.
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