Last night I cut up the last of the prepared maple I have.

You can tell that I’m a programmer by trade. I ended up with two blisters from about 90 minutes of cutting.  One I can sort of understand, it’s on the pad of my right index finger. That’s where I was using a piece of wood to hold down the cutoff cube so it didn’t spin back into the blade.

The other I didn’t discover until I took a closer look to see why my finger was hurting. Somehow I managed to create and pop a blister on the knuckle closest to the end of my finger on that same finger. [Read more →]