Workshop Hazard

I’ve had my strap cutter hanging on my workshop pegboard in the same spot for years. Recently, as I was reaching for a pencil in the cup sitting under the the strap cutter, I cut my arm on the exposed part of the blade. (It was just a flesh wound.) Having broken my wife’s “Rule Number One” (Don’t hurt her husband!), it suddenly became obvious to me that I needed something to cover the blade and prevent that from happening again.

Swivel knife blades come with little caps, but none of those fit the strap cutter blade. I looked around the garage and found that I had some of those little caps that fit over the end of the coated wire shelves in the closets of our house. (Lots of them, in fact, because we’ve got those shelves in nearly every room.) And happily, these extra caps fit the blade perfectly. Problem solved. 

Disaster Averted