Sometime last week, my last acquisition from the NY Sheep and Wool festival showed up via UPS. Here it is! A Patrick Green triple picker!! (And in the background you can see my other stepchild, a Strauch carder) It has about 640 sharp points and boy, are they sharp! It actually comes with a padlock so you can lock it up so people who don't know what it is or how to use it won't hurt themselves. Sounds great, right? Well, I really must be what most people would say, a special kind of stupid. I really hate to admit it, but the truth hurts sometimes.
Here's a picture of what I managed to do to myself within, oh, an hour of getting this bad boy all set up and ready to go:
It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but just below my first knuckle you'll see a red scar line going up from right to left. Now, I know, you're thinking, I was just careless and what do you expect with 640 sharped points? Well, you don't know how I managed to get this boo-boo. I got it, drum roll please, while putting the padlock back on the picker to lock it so no one would get hurt. I don't know how I managed to hurt myself trying to put the lock back on the picker and I'd really rather not try to recreate that just to see. I'll just take it as my stupidity and call it even!
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