Reminds me of the sanding glove, but double stick tape would be a cheaper option if you didn’t need this very often. https://www.thesandingglove.com/default.asp
That is sort of what I was thinking, the aaw complains so much about safety and techniques. I even see that you are not allowed to do demos unless you wear proper face protection. But then they print an article showing a technique where by you stick your hand or fingers in a tight place to sand a turning object. In my opinion that is really dangerous and not something that should be printed without a safety note or disclaimer. A beginner is going to see that, do it, and then rip a finger off or at the least dislocate or break a few digits.Any "stick my finger in it" sanding I do is with the motor off.
Owen, you beat me to it! That picture showing the turners fingers in that narrow groove are almost guaranteed to grab hold of the fingers and I question anyone who would publish some thing like that.Just be careful about sticking your finger into a small hole and having the paper grab onto the turning and your finger at the same time. You can get a painful twisted finger, been there - done that, or worse yet, a broken finger.
I agree. My observations were that a person with lathe knowledge knows the risks. A new beginner reading the only woodturning publication in the us, sees these sanding practices in print starts sanding like this thinking it’s normal.Owen, you beat me to it! That picture showing the turners fingers in that narrow groove are almost guaranteed to grab hold of the fingers and I question anyone who would publish some thing like that.
You don't tape the sandpaper to your fingers though do you? That seems like a one and done lesson to learn.Glen thats.what we call trial.and error. When you do it wrong the first time you hopefully learn from it and wont do it again. . I'm still trying to figure out how early man learned what mushrooms were.edible.
That's why you need "friends"I'm still trying to figure out how early man learned what mushrooms were.edible
a lot do demos where they will say you should always stop lathe when moving tool rest, but then they ignore there own advice and move the tool rest with lathe running