![]() That seemed like a very long time, so I was determined to keep playing left-handed. I wish I had in hindsight, but I thought, well, I've been playing for a few years already, it's going to take me another few years to learn it that way. Probably the easiest thing would have been to flip the guitar upside down and learn to play right-handed instead of left-handed. I decided to make do with what I had, and I made some plastic fingertips for myself. I did have a go at it, but I just didn’t have the patience. The reality of the situation was that I hadn’t been playing very long at all, and I probably could have spent the same amount of time learning to play right handed. I thought I’d never be able to change the way I played. At the time I had already been playing two or three years, and it seemed like I had been playing a long time. ![]() If I knew what I know now I probably would have switched. In an interview with Guitar World magazine, he was asked if he was "ever tempted to switch to right-handed playing." Iommi responded: ![]() Although it was an option, Iommi never seriously considered switching hands and learning to play right-handed. Inspired by Reinhardt's two-fingered guitar playing, Iommi decided to try playing guitar again, though the injury made it quite painful to do so. I told him I thought it was really good and then he said, "You know, the guy's only playing with two fingers on his fretboard hand because of an injury he sustained in a terrible fire." I was totally knocked back by this revelation and was so impressed by what I had just heard that I suddenly became inspired to start trying to play again. My friend said, "Listen to this guy play," and I went, "No way! Listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now!" But he kept insisting and he ended up playing the record for me. However, his factory foreman played him a recording of famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, which encouraged him to continue as a musician. After the injury Iommi considered abandoning the guitar entirely. In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand. Here's some info about Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath Even if you've got a vacuum hooked up to the tool, there's going to be extra dust it doesn't catch. And, don't forget a dust mask when you're doing anything that generates dust- sanding, cutting, spraying.After an unfortunate incident with a dremel, I double this up with safety glasses and a full face mask less chance of metal shards managing to fly up under the rim of the glasses and get into my eyes. In the shop I double it with foam plugs plus over-ear protection. I don't even run a vacuum cleaner without ear protection. We're musicians, after all- we need our ears. Also, no long sleeves or loose hair, for the same reason.then a glove might get caught and pull the rest of your hand in, which is decidedly worse. But if you're using a router table, drill press, table saw, etc. delta7fred is right- wearing gloves when using his hand held angle grinder would have saved his finger tip. "Don't wear gloves?! What are you saying?" Seriously. If it's mounted on a table, do not wear gloves. ![]()
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