um....dont drop mdf on your toe....edit....dont cut your leg with a box cutter

[hulkster]

yup, handling a 27" x 41" piece of mdf i cut...and trying to fit it on the back of my monitor section of my showcase cab....when....whammo.  this happens. (its not graphic, so dont worry)

[crashwg]

That's nothin'.  One time I was moving a table... I was tipping it towards myself so I could roll it (it was round) and when I got past the center of balance the legs slipped on the linoleum floor and the tabletop ended up lining right up with my big toe.  
In about a day or so it was all dark purple and like two days later the whole toenail fell off!  
Luckily it grew back because I've heard sometimes they don't.

[hulkster]

damn, my toe nail might fall off.  it hurt like hell for about 30 min. now it feels better, but im sure it wont feel good in the morning

[HaRuMaN]

your feet are hairy like a hobbitses...

did you steals our precious???

we wantsssss it!

[TalkingOctopus]

I banged myself up quite a bit while constructing my cab too.  I managed to burn, bruise, and cut myself several times.  Probably nothing as painful as your toe though.

[hulkster]

yeah i had my garage door open, and when i dropped the mdf on my toe, i think i yelled out some obscenities....hope my neighbors arent too mad.  

[SNAAAKE]

My toe still owns anyone's toe here for free

[hyiu]

well... my friend also got his big toe ruined... the toe nail comes off... regrow... and whenever he play backetball or something stressful... his big toemail will turn blue again.. and come off again... 3 times already... its deformed....  

I guess career ending injury for him....
 

[hulkster]

aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....thats gross.  well only about half of the toe nail is purple, and its not a dark purple either....so hopefully it will just not be bad enough and be okay.

[SirPeale]

When I was a kid (maybe eight) I dropped an axe (blunt side) on my right big toe.  It was bad, really bad.  Nail ended up falling off.

Somehow some of the cells that govern nail growth must have migrated, because now my toenail grows in sheets.  There's a top layer, and a very small bottom layer.  It's not bad, really, but it's annoying when I trim them.

Another time I slammed a finger in a door.  There was a massive blister underneath the nail.  I took a pin and slowly made a hole in the nail where the blister was, and kept draining the blood.  It healed nicely.

[hulkster]

 I took a pin and slowly made a hole in the nail where the blister was, and kept draining the blood.  It healed nicely.

um, wow dude....thats gross.  do you happen to watch or have heard of "Viva La Bam", i dont remember if you live in the U.S. or not, but its a show on MTV here in the States, and there was this really big fat guy that had a messed up toe nail, with like fungus and all kinds of nasty stuff on it.  well it finally fell off, and Bam (the main dude) took like some tongs (like salad tongs) and pinched the thing and started putting it in peoples faces and making them smell it...oh man it was nasty.

[SirPeale]

 I took a pin and slowly made a hole in the nail where the blister was, and kept draining the blood.  It healed nicely.

um, wow dude....thats gross.

I just didn't want to lose another nail.  And it wasnt' bad, it was just blood.  The hole was small, about the size of this: o

[hyiu]

ok....

"." <-- this is small

"o" <--- this is NOT small....

if someone get shot by a gun.. the hole is porbably this size.... (well.... actually... I donno... and I don't want to find out.... )

 

[dirt]

 I took a pin and slowly made a hole in the nail where the blister was, and kept draining the blood.  It healed nicely.

i use a small sharp drill bit. no,not in a drill just spin it with your fingers. it works faster then a pin with the same result.

dirt

[hulkster]

 I took a pin and slowly made a hole in the nail where the blister was, and kept draining the blood.  It healed nicely.

i use a small sharp drill bit. no,not in a drill just spin it with your fingers. it works faster then a pin with the same result.

dirt

did you put cp art over the top and flush mount your nail?  if you didnt you should.  oh and will a regular cordless drill work, or do i need a drill press?

[dirt]

 

did you put cp art over the top and flush mount your nail?  if you didnt you should.  oh and will a regular cordless drill work, or do i need a drill press?

i didn't flush mount the toe i tried something new. i recessed it. i felt that so many people are using the flush mount method that i would buck the system and go out on a limb. i think it works and looks cool too. before the jokes start i know i have the ugliest toe in the world. by the way the blood clot under the nail is from my mdf backdoor from my golden tee machine so you are not alone.

dirt

[DrewKaree]

Um, what's with the foot porn that's starting to show up around here?  

Dirt, nice job on the art on that thing.  Are you gonna try something rotatable if you do that again?  Also, you shoulda used a forstner bit...smoother sides in the hole.  Prolly woulda let the blood drain quicker than snot from a kid's nose.  

And to answer the Hulkster, I think looking back, he wished he had used a drill press, but freehand worked.  

If that thing falls off, Hulkster, just use your t-molding slotting bit and some epoxy....BAM...good as new.  

Jeez, leave it to the Hulkster....now I guess when you warn a newbie about safety precautions to take when building a cab, we gotta add STEEL TOED SHOES!  I bet as a kid you ran with scissors

[hulkster]

yeah, word of advice....when cutting t molding and using a box cutter...dont cut towards your right calf.  yeah i know, pretty stupid...it was one of those things where like 2 seconds before it happened, i was thinking "hey, what am i doing?  i know this will cut me, what am i thinking?"  and sure enough, whammo, big ol chunk out of my leg bleeding all over my moms carpet.  and i think i hit an artery or something cuz it was squirting all over the place.  just a word of advice.  

[fredster]

Dude, some people shouldn't be allowed to use tools!

Stay away from the power tools!!!!!

[ChadTower]

Bah.  Amateurs!  I was moving a cab down some stairs one time and it slipped off of the hand truck (the strap failed).  I was under it about two steps down, looking at the step so I didn't see it coming.  I caught the marquee square in the temple and it knocked me cold.  I don't know how long I was sitting there.  The cab would have continued to squash me but the top of the door frame I was moving it through caught the marquee after it hit me and stopped the cab from squashing me.  My best guess is that I was there for about a half hour.