My eyes

hurt, my head, I feel like hell, short wind and passages seem to be swelled..soar throat.
 
I think I've been having a reaction to working with Oak.
I've handled a lot of different wood in the last few years but
only recently with oak.
 
I wear breathing protection but not gloves - sure not isolated from contact with
the oak. Started a week ago when I first started working with it...thought I may
be just getting a cold but now I think it's a reaction.
Almost done working with it so that's a good thing.
 
Glad it's not used for guitars lol. Never had a reaction to wood that I recall...thought
I'd mention that it's a possibility if ya didn't know.
 
 
 
 

ouch.  allergies are the pits!  especially when you have a reaction to wood and you love working with wood!  that would really suck big time!

This is why some of us choose to seal ourselves inside our bunkers.  Well, there's also our extreme laziness... 

Sorry to hear about your allergies.  So much for the Poison Oak guitar... 

Thanks..you guys are nice folks..it's not that bad. Feels like a cold, kinda.

Poison oak guitar! LOL

Man I'm just glad I'm not itching. I can handle many things but itching...makes me nuts.

When I started working with wood I read many months before I started and did
find plenty of warnings to be alert. People can have reactions and should be alert when
handling woods and it seemed that most warnings were directed at "exotic" species...
they all seem "exotic" to me!

Well I won't be building oak furniture.

Beagle I'm with you on that long weekend....I'm going to spend my 4 finishing up with
this oak project and be done with oak....and just when I was thinking it may make a
nice neck...

oak has this terrible smell when you cut it, sand it. so does pine. mahogany too. 
it's that fine dust that can kill you. especially if its spaulted (rotten) you can die from this.
you may very well be allergic to it. or build up an allergy to it over the years.

I know how it feels.

17 + years a cabinetmaker. it might be what killing me now.(very sick) unless someone does me in first.

i dont/ cant do it anymore but I loved to. I'll see If I can dig up some pics.  some archtop guitars too.

all high end work. did a lot of work in Manhattan NYC.  lots work on the gold coast of long island. 
Bloomingdales, Ralph Lauren. trump plaza

had a sliding table saw. a martin. the blade was 15" with a 7 hp motor.. had a piece of wood kick back and hit me in the stomach once. never been hit so hard in my life. 

Jonbouy

....killer bassist.

Uh oh.

There's going to be an entire band making hits soon.

Oh boy...I just updated post #10....out of all the things I could have said...
he is a fantastic bassist.
I'm going home. There are just to many holes around here to fall in...and they
seem very much like that big one I mentioned not long ago.

Hope you feel better soon.

aoacrawhorc ohooooorahwowo

? does cottonballs have any relation? HELP Bapu..I need
a craigb translator.

Thank you Star.
I do appreciate the well wishes but I posted
really for those that may not know that wood
could effect them. Guess I've been lucky the last few
years.