As far as the inconvenience factor goes I get it. So I came up with a solution for that as well. I have three “stations” in my firewood supply chain: the outside wood shed, the firewood rack in the garage, and last, the small firewood holder inside next to the stove. My wood moves from the outside woodshed to the medium sized rack in the garage. This way if I need wood I have a couple day supply that is close, dry and which I don’t have to slog through snow, ice, wind, and darkness to get. Then from the rack in the garage it moves to the small holder rack right next to the stove. I have three pairs of gloves. I keep one at each of the three locations so no matter what spot I happen to be working at the time, I have a pair of gloves conveniently available and located within arms reach. All of this reminds me of the saying, “If you keep on doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep on getting what you’re getting.”
Easy, friend. I didn’t say I didn’t wear gloves—I’m just trying to help OP with his question. I take more splinters out of my kids’ hands and feet than my own.
I do not get splinters very often. I use gloves most of the time. But when I do get one, I use watch tweezers. Just google watch tweezers and they are some of the sharpest tweezers around and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. I work on antique watches and so I have a bunch of tweezers.
Yep, I understand that I don't like gloves and therefore have no valid complaint when I get a splinter. I'm ok with that. Sometimes I wear gloves, sometimes they get in the way, piz me off and I toss them. I've pulled or cut my fair share of splinters out and that will probably continue to some degree. I uave actually gotten better (relatively) at the gloves thing. Now chaps and ear pro, I'm all about 100% of the time. And eye pro when cutting too.... So I'm not some total crazy wildman....
My original question was about taking splinters out, wondering if anyone heard of or tried the syringe method, or other ways to remove splinters. However the conversation shows a bigger problem, of not wearing gloves, and stressing it's best to avoid the chance of splinters in the first place. When I worked, a lot of training started off with teaching the basics, and building from there. There's a lot of good comments here, on something so basic.
I have not tried the syringe method; don't know that I will. I have never been unable to get a splinter out with a razor blade (or needle) and tweezers (no specific kind). If I ever get to the point that my wife or I cannot get the splinter out, I will probably head to the doctor for a shot of numbing agent and let the doc get it out. I hope it never comes to that. My apologies for the derailing...
No apologies needed, they're all good comments, I appreciate it. Sometimes, these posts take a little different twist than expected, like this one, and sometimes, they become a train wreck. I agree that it is a much better to use gloves, and keep the splinters at bay.
