17 and counting !

Gladstone1969 said:
There’s a proper way to do this. Watch JSacadura’s videos on YouTube. It’s still a risk, but the risk can be mitigated. He has a video on safety too.
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I watched many of his several times. Need find the safety one. My problem is I grow up with big knife and cutting board to cut everything. Need learn how to cut with way smaller knife and without cutting board.
 

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Fig Gazer said:
GoodFriendMike :HAVING butcherd tens of thousand of fish and other creatures plus 1000+ grafts have worked out ways to make any cut safely without gloves or leather armor ,still have all my fingers and no self inflicted sccars .But not going to put others at risk,AND GRAFTING IS DANGEROUS .
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I understand that. And agree. Figs I think more so because of the soft and hard wood.
Other trees it is the same tension on the blade thru out the cut. Figs on the other hand not so much.
 
Gladstone1969 said:
JSacadura on YouTube. He’s all you need. Search JSacadura and grafting on YouTube for bud-grafts, cleft graphs, whip-and-tongue grafts, and other bark grafts. He’s great.
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Thank you. I actually watched his chip-bud grafting video not long ago. I did not realize he had many more videos on fig grafting. now I know.
 
Two safety keys in grafting. One make your tongue or cleft cuts with a rocking motion. Do not push the knife straight in. Two keep your thump tips pressed to each other so if the wood fails and the knife slips through, your thumb to thumb contact limits the knife from flying forward hitting the hand you have steadying the material. Unless you use a grafting tool, some portion of your body will be in the direction of the blade travel while grafting.

Make cuts with slicing or rocking motions. Trying to force a perpendicular blade straight through wood no matter how sharp takes much more force. The more force the more likely you slip.
So when you make the whip part of the cut, hold the blade at a slight angle to the wood instead of trying to pull it through at a blade to scion angle of 90deg.
 
Fig Gazer said:
completed 17th graft of the season today .Usually make 100++ grafts a year but only grafting gift cuttings,and moving potted var.to frankinfigs and a couple for freinds .. SO almost done already .AS an aside the reason my cuttings grow so well is that they have never been below 40 degress and are already full of nutricious sap ,ready to go asap ! At least that is my thoughts on the subject ?
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Keep me posted on which cuttings took!
 
Anyone can get into grafting - I used one of those $20 tools that look like some frankensheers when I first started. I used the Omega cuttings head and it works well as long as the size of RS and scion are the right size and the same size. It would be fine to stick with that if you aren't comfortable with razor sharp knives. Mine has a scissor thing at the tip that I did cut myself with so I ground it off, not a crucial part of the tool.

If you have smaller cuttings (thin ones) I would definitely use whip and tongue - a little harder to get the hang of maybe, but they work very well and take as well as anything else. Modified cleft/banana/chip bud grafts (in the order of preference) are OK for larger diameter or mismatched size stock, but I only do those if I have too.
 
PapaFig said:
Anyone can get into grafting - I used one of those $20 tools that look like some frankensheers when I first started. I used the Omega cuttings head and it works well as long as the size of RS and scion are the right size and the same size. It would be fine to stick with that if you aren't comfortable with razor sharp knives. Mine has a scissor thing at the tip that I did cut myself with so I ground it off, not a crucial part of the tool.

If you have smaller cuttings (thin ones) I would definitely use whip and tongue - a little harder to get the hang of maybe, but they work very well and take as well as anything else. Modified cleft/banana/chip bud grafts (in the order of preference) are OK for larger diameter or mismatched size stock, but I only do those if I have too.
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Thank you for sharing!
 
Fig Gazer said:
THOUGHT ABOUT IT ,PLUS KITS TO REVERSE ENGINER ,WHIP & TOUGN GRAFTS WITH GRAFTED EXAMPLE AND WRITEN /ILLISTRATED INSTRUCTION .BUT AFFRAID TO BE SUED WHEN SOME ONE CUTTS THEM SELF !!!
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Which of course is inevitable LOL somebody's going to do it. Hopefully they would not sue you Phil. You're just too nice a guy for someone to do it too you.
 
I can’t do work like this with gloves on. I recently got some of these to protect my thumbs. They’re very effective if you just pull the blade into your thumb but a long slice will cut through it. For me it was the best compromise between dexterity and protection

 
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