/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2481385
My parents owned a store in the country which had one of them, being the adolescent slave unit #1 I got to use it quite a bit.
Very slippy bits of ham = small crescent scar on my right thumb across the knuckle, its faded now but at the time it just hurt so much with all the salt and meat juice rammed in there. I didn't get any stitches but got to tape it up with enough band aids and plaster to at least stop leaking blood everywhere for a few hours.

I think the best DIY accident I've seen and sort of semi-involved in was helping a friend move into this narrow as fuck terrace house.
>He's bought himself a huge, solid wood desk
>it won't fit up the stairs
>wut do?
>I can saw the legs off it and we'll just put them back on with some braces later
>reeeeeeeeeee no, not my desk
>it is a complete piece of shit and its not like I'd be cutting up an heirloom or anything
>but he wants it in the 2nd story
>I'm out of ideas you do you man

>So plan B
>Get rope
>Get other friend with retard strength
>He will haul it up through the top window
>I will be under the desk, pushing up to get it started
>Begin pushing, they begin pulling

>Desk is now well above my arms reach
>Entire window frame falls out
>I get mushed by the desk
>Broken nose, dislocated shoulder, the usual I've been through this before, now I'm just a bit uglier
>They go sailing over me
>I have distinct memories of supermens flying
>They get a broken femur, broken ankle and broken arm
>Ah, the ambalamps is here

The desk was completely fucked, I burnt it in a BBQ pit about a month later

>>1478708
>do not use a grinder on something you are holding in your hand
I get my stitches out today
Its one of those things I always promised myself I wouldn't do, but it was just a little piece and it'll only take a few zips across it and...

yeah, I'm a fucking idiot

>>1238673
They where a wedding gift from my parents to some friends of theirs, almost bit off more than I could chew in a ridiculously short time frame. Pic wasn't at their final finish, still had some more polishing and shit to do but at the time I needed to snap a picture, finish them off, cleaned up and get them out the door so it was literally the only chance I had.
Construction was basically having a frame made out of 304SS with brass spacers around the extended bolsters, then mechanically pinned and silver-soldered together. After that handles gets carved, hollowed out to fit the frame, slide the blade tang in and pin it to the bolsters. Makes it immensely strong, lot lighter than it looks, but so over-engineered its kind of a 'fuck my life' nightmare really. They where part of 4 knives but didn't get to take a pic of the honesuki/paring knife and a little peeling knife.

Oh and just to top it all off, when I was sharpening the chefs knife, figured "yeah that's pretty good" and did the old hair-shave down the arm- well, we got past shaving sharp and well into 'scalpel sharp' territory, so ended up bleeding everywhere as I nearly accidentally filleted myself. Took a break from that and sharpened up the bread knife and managed to mutilate an index finger as apparently that can get razor sharp too. 15N20 gets really, screaming nasty sharp if you put the right edge geometry into it, maybe not the durability of a chop down a tree edge geometry in this application, but its a blade material people often overlook as just a bit to squeeze into some forge welded patterns. It stands on its own very well.