thats funny sounds like something dumb i would do

Small scar on finger where I almost ran it through a pulley.  Working at a printing shop, they had this monster paper cutter with a five-foot-diameter flywheel.  Clutch was shot, it often stopped halfway through a stack of paper (we usually cut a stack about 15 inches high, probably 4000 sheets).  When it stopped, we had to turn off the motor and back the blade up by hand: engage clutch and turn flywheel backward, by pulling on the belts that turned the flywheel.  Pulled hard, failed to get hand off of belt before belt reached pulley on motor shaft.  Predictable result, opened finger to the bone but no blood because tissues were crushed by blunt rim of pulley.  Walked calmly to supervisor, showed him my finger and made him turn green, put Band-Aid on it, rode bicycle about seven miles to doctor, watched him inspect it, clean it out, get ready to sew it up.  Doctor put needle in one side of cut.

I fainted.

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We usally paint the chuck key a bright color so we don't for get. You had a belt driven lathe that will slip in a sitition like that, a new big lathe doesn't. That means you have to replace some sear pins and get yelled at. I have never left the chuck key in the chuck yet. That is the first safty precaution that they teach in school.

As for you shear you could use hand shears, vise, and vise gripps to bend and cut the silver. It would be the cheap method. Ebay has a shear there you might like if you want to spend some money. here is the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/7-1-2-COMBINATION-MINI-BRAKE-SHEAR-NEW_W0QQitemZ7546803326QQ...

I hope this is what you are looking for.

Erm, scars all over my hands from slipped knives, broken guitar strings (hey! They are sharp!) my attempts at flint knapping... a particularly huge double scar on the base of my right thumb from a sharp piece of metal that was pulled out of my hands.
A scar just under my right eyebrow from having my head hit into a desk, a scar on the very edge of my left eyebrow from having a pair of glasses punched off. A scar on the right side of my jaw from broken glass... I have a really big scar on my left ankle from when a beer bottle was thrown at it. Scars all over my arms and legs from assorted fun things.

And I don't consider myself accident prone 

I've got a nice scar from a saber slash to my right forearm. Native American tatoo to left wrist and native style dolphin tatoo to left shoulder. Both ears pierced and I will occasionally wear a silver nose bob when going traditional or to powwows.

kind of like one of the worlds flags - turkey maybe ?

I bought a nodic knife not to long ago. Well a nordic knife has a scandivian grind and no hand gruard what so ever. Well i was looking at it in the living room and deceided it was time to put it up. Well since there is no hand gruard the leather it the only thing keeping the knife in the sheath. I didn't push the knife down far enough for the knife to stay. When i got up the knife fell right on my big toe right on a crease. It bleed so bad.

Me too, helps me disappear into the crowd.