Have you ever gotten metal splinters from a homebrew pick?

[felixthecat]

Last night i was bored so i just made a lockpick from a bobbypin
I just made it a feeler from it in about 1 min
I skipped the step of rouding the tip and went on to raking a bikelock with my pretty sharp homemade feeler pick
Next moring my hands started to hurt for no reason so i just though o well
Then i noticed there was really small metal shaving all over my hands..so i just washed my hands 2 times really well. nothing happened so i spent 1 hour taking off metal shaving from my fingers but thats not the end of that story.

There is metal shavings between my finger prints that have cut my left index finger 5 times (1 pretty deep) and also 1 giant cut on my left middle finger

The only way to get rid most of the shaving between my finger prints was to take the giant house vacume out and turn it on then vacume my hands and fingers for 3min

[Title edited by MBI so it's no longer useless.]

[felixthecat]

the shavings lasted for about 20 hours
i just vacumed them off 20 min ago

[Eyes_Only]

Any time I try to construct anything out of metal I always cut myself. I just suck at working with metal I guess. And at work its even worse. I get a new gash somewhere on my hands every other day.

[Kaotik]

I voted No, as that particular situation has never happen to me. However, if I do sustain an injury of any sort, it mainly consists of poking myself in the finger tips from sanding the pick tip with the sandpaper sandwiched around the pick.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Live and learn my friend.

[Anero]

I voted No, as that particular situation has never happen to me. However, if I do sustain an injury of any sort, it mainly consists of poking myself in the finger tips from sanding the pick tip with the sandpaper sandwiched around the pick.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Live and learn my friend.

And that does hurt! I was sanding a pick one night and put the thing half way throught the tip of my finger, not fun, i pay more attention when i'm sanding like that

[raimundo]

you can use a bit of rubber folded around the sandpaper to protect yourself and also keep the pinching from concentrating too much on a small area of the fingers, but this is advise I don't actually take myself.
whatever

[josh0094]

never heard of this one, in my lockpick making only time i ever get hurt is by cutter disks braking.

[samfishers]

metal splinters never hapenned to me, however fiber glass splinters did hurt

[Eyes_Only]

A lot of fiber glass splinters and dust hurts and itches. Thats what I learned when I was making my own bump hammer.

[zeke79]

I get brass splinters at times from cutting keys and getting the key swarf on my hands but that is about it. A needle and a pair of tweezers usually takes care of it.

[Raymond]

I get a lot of brass slivers flying onto my hands from the duplicator. But, off a bobby pin - never.

Just a thought but that may hve been some form of plating flaking off with the hand use and constant flexing of the wire. Live and learn.

[nzleagle]

Hasnt happend quite so bad to me before, but when cutting hundreds of keys a day, every now and then Ill get one or two splinters in my hands that I dont find untill I pick something up, sometimes I havent found it untill I get home from work....

[maintenanceguy]

FYI:
For fiberglass fibers on my skin, I use the sticky side of duct tape to lift them away. I keep a roll on my truck just for this purpose. I wrap an ugly duct tape mitten around my hand , sticky side out and start patting the area til the itch is gone.

For tiny slivers of metal that you can't see but somehow get into my skin almost every day, I first try duct tape. On the rare occasions when that doesn't do it, I've mixed a small (only a couple of drops) of a 2 part fast setting epoxy and used that to make a 1/4" lump right over the splinter. Cover the epoxy dot with a bandaid (which I never can find on my truck) or a torn piece of paper towel and go back to work. A few minutes later I pull off the hardened epoxy dot and out comes the splinter with it. Make sure to dampen the skin right around where you think the splinter is to stop the epoxy from sticking to you or you could tear some skin.