I read recently that one of the types of DIY accidents that is swiftly on the rise is people shooting themselves with power-nailers. I don’t know what the urge is that would make someone want to nail their own arse to the floor, but there is no denying its increasing popularity.
Well, my day is now complete. Thx.
djm
The worst I’ve done to my hand was while cutting a violin bridge. I have some extremely shart, fast, and thin luthier knives I use for this sort of thing, and I slipped with one. it cut my middle finger on my left hand from the tip down to the end of the second didget. However, since the knife was so shartp, I didn’t feel it. What I did end up doing unfortunatly, was getting blood all over the top of the “white” (un varnished, raw wood) violin I was working on.
I had my hand bandaged up for a week or so, couldn’t play much of anything (except the drum ). When I was better, I went back to the violin. Note: this may be a little creepy to some 
I ended up being able to sand off most of the blood stain, but not all. Since the top was so nice, I ended up using it. The violin plays quite nice now, and, needeless to say, has been finished in a lovely “antiqued” red colour.
They say a luthier puts a litle bit of himself into all his intruments…
I used to work in a chemistry lab and from time to time I had to push a piece of glass tubing through a hole in a rubber stopper to make some sort of set-up. There is a safe way to do this. For some reason, I choose to do it the stupid way. The tubing broke while I was twisting it through the hole and the broken end sticking out of the stopper plunged into my right hand just between my index and middle fingers. I could not bring myself to look at it, but my co-worker was able to and she said we needed to go to a doctor. I got a few stitches. My two fingers don’t spread as far apart as the ones on my left hand and I didn’t recover all the sensation in my middle finger. At the time I was playing the piano and was a little concerned, but at my level of skill it never seemed to make any difference . It did make a difference in how I pushed tubing through stoppers though.
All the woodcarving and whittling, reed making and whistle making I’ve done over the years has resulted in numerous cuts to my hands and fingers. If it’s a fairly small cut, but just in the wrong place for a bandage to permit piping, I’ve found that I can superglue it closed. It works quite well, and will hold it for a couple days.
This story doesn’t actually involve damage to the hands, but it does include reeds, a sharp knife and accidental self-stabbing!
In one hand I was carrying a bunch of reeds I’d been making from one place to another, in the other hand I held an x-acto knife.
Somehow I tripped, and while my instinct for reed-preservation kicked in and I didn’t fall on them, the other hand was completely forgotten, and the knife sunk itself up to the hilt in my right hip. Owie. I have quite the scar.
I had to have surgery for Dupetren’s contracture when I could no longer finger an on the knee E.
The surgeon put the scar tissue where it did the most damage to a piper’s feeling, the second pad of the ring finger and the first pad of the pinkie. I have difficulty in feeling the buzz in the C chanter, although I can feel the Hillmann Concert chanter finger holes buzz easily, as it has great big holes.
I had to skip practice for 6 weeks.
I will soon need surgery in the left hand, only the pinkie is affected on that hand, but it it getting awkward to put my left hand in a pocket if it is the least bit confined.
fractured left elbow; couldn’t even hold the chanter with left hand (left handed piper). 5 weeks w/o piping and 2 weeks of PT before being able to play.