Picture this: You're enjoying the weather outside on the porch when you brush up against a piece of wood and suddenly feel a sharp pain. You look down to see a stinging sliver of wood lodged ...

What may be the world’s first piece of lab-grown wood isn’t quite big enough to qualify as a woodchip – it’s more like a splinter. But the tiny fragment could be a big step towards ...

Imagine getting a splinter, but instead of wood or metal, it’s a tiny strand of hair piercing your skin. Meet the hair splinter—a surprising and often painful issue, especially for barbers, pet ...

Since the blade on a saw used for cross-cutting spins 90 degrees to the direction of the grain, the blade can tend to pull splinters out on the back side of your board. Place a scrap of wood ...

People should remove splinters of wood, thorns, spines, and vegetative foreign objects as soon as possible because they contain substances that can result in inflammation and infection.

It is also used as an accent wood for furniture and cabinets. When working with wenge beware that splinters of wenge cause persistent inflammation. Although not common in the North American ...

Splinters + life is sometimes what you have ... I slid across the floor of my old house and felt a shard of wood stab my foot. I did all the things you are supposed to do, including soaking ...

A carpenter suffered a life-threatening stroke, blindness, sepsis and pneumonia - after a wood splinter in his hand got infected. Dave Parkyn was left blind in his right eye, partially sighted in ...