Work Bench Disaster!!!

I've got a project for a turquoise and coral bracelet, pendant, earrings, and ring with tomorrow for a deadline. My supplies were late getting here from Gallop, so I started late to begin with. Last night and today I cut the stones and have almost completed the earrings, and ring. I was reaching across my bench to the pickle pot and my torch stand caught on my hoodie sleeve. It fell landing on my torch hose, and all I could hear was gas spewing. At first I did not know which line was spewing gas, and could not find the tank wrench sitting right in front of me. I have a voltive candle burning on my bench to light my torch. I started to panic because I could not shut my tank, so I blew the candle out and finally found the wrench and shut my acetylene tank off. It was my oxygen hose that got nicked.

I was low on gas to begin with but had enough to finish with my little torch. Now I have to use my old torch which uses 3-4 time the volume of gas, and is kind of like doing surgery with a sledge hammer, after using a jeweler's torch. I will continue till I run out, and luckily there is one welding supply house open tomorrow at 8am so I can get more gas before Xmas. The project is for a friend and they celebrate the Solstice so the present has to be done tomorrow. I did not want to take the project, and even told my friend that I would have to charge him full price and he said yes, D'oh!

I've been paid 50% of the total due so there is no going back. I might have to miss the So Cal meet up tomorrow to get done.
:cry:

Now back to my bench.

Oh NO!

This is awful for you, sweetie...

I hope you can recover, and still come to the meetup...

Remember to call me tomorrow afternoon, and let me know, OK?

I'm heading out now for dinner with my Red Cross buddies...

Hope it works out so you can go tomorrow!

I'll check in later tonight...

:cry:

:hug:

I hope you get more work done than you seem to expect, before you run out of (oxygen?) whichever gas you're running out of.

On the bright side, it could have been a much worse disaster, so I'm glad it wasn't. :hug:

breath. Relax and breath. You can do this but a panic will not help. Step away for a little bit and regroup. And remember, you do beautiful work. :hi:

Besides, you can come to the next DU meetup for all of us that couldn't go on the weekend before Christmas to this one....even if it's just you and me!

That sounds like a whole lot of stress, extra expense, and now it's interfering with your holiday. :(

I hope the jewelry at least comes out spectacularly. And I hope there are no more problems.