Got punished for cheating

[Stickhead]

Well, I was using a scraper to adjust my tiller, and since it was still pretty heavy, I was lazy and didn’t de-string it first, even though I was scraping near the tip.  I must’ve nicked the string a couple times with the back of the scraper, and bang!  Fortunately, my heart and my bow both survived better than the string.  Another lesson learned.

[PatM]

Unstring while tillering?     That would take forever.

[DC]

Put an edge protector on the scraper. Tape or a split piece of wire insulation. But you knew that, right

[Pat B]

Lesson learned...I hope. 

[PatM]

Just turn the scraper so it's almost flat and use it more like a plow.   There's little need to be working close enough to the nocks anyway.

[Stickhead]

Just turn the scraper so it's almost flat and use it more like a plow.   There's little need to be working close enough to the nocks anyway.

It has recurved tips, so the string was dangerously close a good ways from the tips.  My bad.

[George Tsoukalas]

If i have to work close to the nocks, I unstring. If I have to work near the fades, I leave it strung. i use a bow stringer.
jawge

[bjrogg]

Yup done that to. Sure will wake you up in a hurry.
Bjrogg

[paulsemp]

done it and almost lost my front teeth

[Russ]

I use a very small knife as my scraper when its strung. nothing has happened to me yet that hasn't been my own stupidity.   

[Will B]

Good lesson. Glad you didn’t get hurt

[Hamish]

I think everyone does this at least once. I did it with a Bowyer's Edge scraper tool.
Surprising how it doesn't even need to be a very sharp opposite edge. Blue masking tape is so useful.

[HH~]

Yeah
Looks like it cut it like a razor blade.

Can cut a length of shrink wrap , cut a side, slide it over back edge and hit it with heat gun. Put tape over top.

Little attention getter.

HH~.

[Eric Krewson]

Been there done that more than once, I didn't cut the string all the way through just a few strands, it was still toast. I use scissors mostly for scraping now, no way to cut a string.

[Hawkdancer]

I knew there was a reason to keep those junk scissors! 
Hawkdancer