Tools and safety

[smascrns]

I stopped with minis more than 10 years ago but I still have all the stuff at home. At that time I almost only used one tool, the knife. I used it for everything from cutting to scrapping to flatening things out (it's really simple, just use the knife in a counter-hedge direction for scrapping and flatening).

Of course, that meant that most of time I would hang with small cuts all around my fingers. I always looked at it as part of the hobby. A sportsman gets bruises, a minis hobbist gets cuts.

[Remjin]

Yes, it can be, but taking some care to avoid it can reduce that to nearly zero. I've been doing it for many years, and over the course of that time I eventually figured out or was taught how to avoid just about every one of them.

Accidents happen, minimizing the chances of them and their severity is key.