3 Decade woodworker, hobby leather crafter. I should have known better!

Decades of woodworking, and its just a habit, if I am creating dust, the mask goes on.

So today, After putting some dye on a project, i went out, fired the smoker up, and pulled the ribs out of fridge that have been waiting in their glorious marinade for the past day to go on the smoker. Back to the project.

Promptly proceeded to glue up a different project, which I did. Not something really huge, but enough that it took me maybe 7 minutes to apply the contact cement to each piece, then wait a bit to dry after my glue up. Glued em up, they looked good, hammered them down and decided to go make sure the smoker had enough chips going.

I walked into the kitchen and couldn't for the life of me figure our how, or why I used my HDPE cutting board to put the dye on the first project. I looked at it, and looked at it, then realized i didn't do anything in the kitchen, then it hit me.

I was looking at bbq sauce on my cutting board, and I was more than a bit loopy from from the contact cement. Since i just left my work area, the only thing on my mind was leatherwork, and the fact i was dying some pieces earlier made me believe I somehow used my cutting board for my dye work.

Lesson learned! Move my habits from woodworking to leather craft, if i am going to use contact cement, pull the mask out.

I was high on leather work, and didn't even know it! lol

I am still high on leather work, but its not the glue sniffing type of high!

Have a great day everyone!