Haha. "Doc in a Box"!! I thought i was the only person who calls them that!! Glad you're alright!

WOW! That's harsh. Worse yet; you are right hand dominant, and that is the longest finger. Hope your recovery is quick, and you are back in action soon.

That moment when Jim says "it depends on your definition of 'bad'..." Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"? Egon Spengler: Try to image all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip. Thanks Egon. Glad you're doing better! And now I'm excited to see what you do with Marvel Crisis Protocol -- my son and I just recently discovered it as well as our LGS started carrying it.

ouch indeed! So, now you know how a piece of foam feels like when you use the hot wire cutting machine.

Sorry for your pain! Hope those two weeks go quickly for you. Glad to hear that your younger will be getting into gaming.

Dude. I've been burned/cauterized with cauterization tool, cigarette, soldering iron, hot glue, cattle fence, etc. You have ALL my empathy and sympathy. Wishing you nothing but the best, healing up. Looking forward to the laser stuff

Scars like that are badges of experience. May they always be superficial! I have a few on my hands, one from when I was a teen and did a similar cut down my left ring finger. Another altered my fingerprint when a barracuda bit the tip of my index finger and split it right down the middle. Also, Inkscape is great.

I can relate man, I ground off the tip of my middle finger while using my shaper, not fun, amazingly it grew back and was told even the finger print would the same. Oh and I 3d print all my minis at 150% larger scale, they are easier to paint.

Coming soon on The Tabletop Engineer: Jim builds a rube-goldberg machine for home cauterization using nothing but a bird cage, bowling ball, 17 bungie cords and some hot glue... ***Note*** Do not attempt home-cauterization!!!

Wow, what an experience! Sorry for your pain but you told the story well! Glad you are on the mend.

moral of the story: this is why you should always focus when handling dangerous equipment. Had a also an accident where I just rammed a cutter into my thumb. Thankfully not that much damage but the pain was still there. Made me develop a lot of respect for the tools I use and havent had an injury since.

I feel your pain, I made a trip to the ER after putting a 2" gash in the base of my thumb with an X-Acto blade about 10 years ago and ended up with about 8 stitches. I was trying to cut an old Dreamscape mini off it's base and like you knew immediately that I need to go to the ER.

Wasn't superglue invented for field surgery in war? Anyway, sounds like fun... I am not going to compare, it hasn't happened to me. What HAS happened to me -twice - is having needles shoved into my spine. Once for a spinal tap 23 years ago, second was last year when they were supposed to use it as a local anestetic. Anyway, it hurts a bit... 😛

The mother of five boys in me is conflicted, I don't know whether to sympathies, look sternly at you and ask "What did you learn" or fix you homemade chicken noodle soup. I'm just going to wish you the best and speediest of recoveries while secretly snickering. 😜

I had a procedure done in 2015 to have a crushed saliva gland in my lip called a mucocele removed from accidently biting my lip. But they used one of those cauterize devices to close the area so it wouldn't come back. Granted it wasn't quite the same experience you had but there's something very unnerving about the smell of your own flesh burning.

I'm surprised I even have the fingerprint on my right ring finger after my last soldering iron mishap. Half a second of contact took off most of the skin from the tip to the first knuckle.

Dude, DON'T DO THAT EVER AGAIN! Oh, and what's a "Doc in a box?" Never heard of those.

When I was working as a waiter years ago, I had some black bean soup spilled on my right arm. At the time, I didn't realize it was on my arm for about 3 seconds. Fortunately it was a small area, about the size of a quarter, but that was very painful. I've touched hot glue before, not on purpose, but the black bean soup spill was so much worst.

I'll bet that when you start cooking on the grill this summer, the smell of searing meat will probably give you some serious PTSD Flashbacks! All joking aside, Sorry to hear about your finger. Take it slow, and rest up ..... By The Way, Where's the Link for the video on making game mats? I don't see it.

Was conflicted about hitting Like on this video...