© unknownMagician Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels sliced off the top of his ring finger and mauled other digits when his left hand was caught in a circular saw at his home in Wargrave, southeast England.
"I decided to make a 'sled' for my table saw to make it safer. I already had most of the pieces cut and started to cut a fiddly bit. Very quickly and without any warning, a piece of timber seemed to leap and pulled my left hand fingers into the teeth of the circular saw," the 73-year-old told the Henley Standard .
With his radio presenter wife at work, he staggered to his car and drove in a panic to a hospital.
"I must have looked a weird sight, doubled over with my face all screwed up from the pain," he said. "I had no idea what had been damaged or lost, or where I was, or anything. My head was full of the pain and the possible end of the magic."
However specialist surgeons got to work and saved his hand. Although the accident happened New Year's Day, Daniels only spoke about it after last week getting the all-clear for his next tour, in February.
"I have got sensation in all the fingers now, although there will always be a bit missing on one of them," he told the Standard.
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