Ask Adam: Accurate Appearance vs. Accurate Materials

6 thoughts on “Ask Adam: Accurate Appearance vs. Accurate Materials”

1. I work in a wood shop and through some outdated equipment/ a poor decision on my part, I had a horrible accident. This happened just over a year ago, with a table saw, I ended up losing a few fingers on my left hand and damaging the remaining fingers.

   I know accidents happen, even severe ones, especially since I’ve been doing this kind of work for more than a decade. But as a fellow maker, my confidence has been shattered by this accident. I’m suffering from PTSD and panic attacks when around or using power saws. It’s made me question myself as a maker and if I have any business at all being a maker.

   As someone who has been injured (many times I imagine) and as a maker that I highly look up to, I wanted to reach out and hear what you had to say.

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2. Yowza! I got my question answered! And it was a wonderful answer indeed, not at all what I had anticipated. Yay! Thanks Adam!

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3. #askadamsavage

   Do you have any one place you can go look through all of your projects at a glance? A log or a diary of sorts to look at where you stand with any given project?

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4. that was a really good question, too! also interesting that adam is homing in more on the experience of the actor holding the prop and not the character holding an in-universe-real object.

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5. I think it’s an excellent question and I vote for Adam to answer you!

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6. I very nearly lost either full use of my good hand or all the fingers on that hand when I was a sophomore in college. I was cut with a circular saw by a friend who tripped while using it. I was lucky enough that the injury was in really the only spot where I could have come through it with a fully functional hand, but I still have some severe trepidation using any tool with a spinning or oscillating blade. It’s been almost 10 years. As someone who saw a potential outcome like yours come so close, I send as much sympathy and encouragement to you as I can. And I’d also very much like to hear Adam’s thoughts on moving past that kind of maker-trauma, if you will, or at the very least mitigating it so you can continue doing what you love.

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