Re: [nafex] Is grafting a blood sport?

["Ed Fackler" <rocmdw@aye.net>]

Victoria and all other good NAFEX folks:

     You description on how to hold a knife when grafting is outstanding~!
Also, the end result is akin to a veneer cut or no downward/upward
pressure from the knife blade by "LOCKING" up all muscles in hands/wrists.
Of course in order to do this the knife must be razor sharp to prevent
minute knicks in/of the cambium.

Ed, So. Indiana-----------heavenly springtime!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "victoria l. caron" <vicaron@gis.net>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Is grafting a blood sport?


> Hi Joe,
> It may be that I've been lucky having only cut myself twice in around ten
years, but maybe it's my style. I LOCK (key word) my grip - including my
> wrist - thumb up during the cut - never moving a joint (kind of how you
lock onto chopsticks so they don't slide around, but with a different
holding
> pattern). Always pull straight and towards you. Both cuts I received were
doing the stock cut for smaller cleft grafts when I first started and
> should have been more careful of the hand holding the stock which I
brought up against the knife as I let go the stock to get my wedge. DUH!!!
Good
> luck,
> vic NH zone 3
>
> Joe and Ellen Hecksel wrote:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > Does grafting qualify as a blood sport?  You know, a "sport"  where some
> > dumb brute follows it's unbridled instinct with the unfortunate loss of
> > blood, limb, etc.?
> >
> > This has been a clumsy year for me.  I put a BIG notch in my left thumb
> > trying to milk one more bud off a stick.  I modified my technique since
> > that event.  Consequently, more than one of my remaining fingers have
> > been nicked.
> >
> > The worst bloodletting was when I jammed my injured thumb loading
> > laundry into the machine.  Guess I will stick to grafting.  I am not man
> > enough to take the pain of laundry.  At least that is what I will tell
> > Ellen 8-)
> >
> > Keep your shovels, knives and wits sharp.
> >
> > --
> > -Joe Hecksel
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