I've got a bunch of pen barrels glued up to make a variety of pens and part of the process is truing the ends of the wood perpendicular to the end of the barrel without removing too much material while doing so. So, I'd finished all of the blanks (8), and was starting to round the corners which technically isn't necessary, but it makes it easier to get it started on the lathe so you're not hitting 4 hard corners, you're hitting 8 not so hard corners, so there's less chip out and breakage.
I had a nice piece of black locust burl for one of the new style bolt action "tec" pens (it comes with a stylus to use on your phone or tablet), and I knew there was a dodgy piece partially cracked off that I'd need to super glue before I turned it, but normally you don't need to worry about it when truing the blanks. Except today... I got three of the four hard edges softened and went to do the fourth, and POP! comes a triangular piece and I thought it'd gone down the throat of my disk sander's vacuum port and figured it was gone & I'd have to redo the whole thing. But, when I went to start chamfering the next piece, something was in the way. The missing piece was wedged between the sanding guide and the disc.
I took the chip and tried to use "super thin" super glue to fix it, except I neglected to take into account how fast it will traverse a crack and squeeze out the other side. Now, I was trying to only hold it in place with my thumb nail, and not the pad of my thumb, but it sure enough stuck that piece of wood to the end of my thumb nice & tight. Took me about 10 minutes of slowly working it with a single sided blade to get it off without tearing a hole in the pad of my left thumb. I think I only removed the first couple of layers of skin, because so far, there's no pain.
The full extant of the lamination.
After a bit of work
Almost there
