Now slightly ex carpeneter! I know after the event it is too late but one piece of advice that saved me a bunch of pain is, cut away from your body and never hold the thing you are whittling or chopping up eg a carrot! I use a vice if its wood and table fork if a veggy :0)

Since I managed to mess up my elbow realy bad I cannot use a hammer or wood plane or bunch of other stuff no more - that hurts! But that was not my fault my exemployer let me try to do the work of three people and I wore out my elbow!

Ditto to Graham's comment bout the fiddler :0) my buddie now 76 can make a hoedown tune hop with nearly no notes at all, I know it is his bowing and timing but it cannot be copied - I try real hard and cannot reproduce the sound - Also I have seen younger fiddlers play a thousand notes in the same tunes but they sound like crap! Is it magic or something?