Date: 4/4/2001, 1:43 am
: Besides the availability and low cost (free) I find short pieces of scrap
: strips are ideal for push sticks. They are stiff enough to do the job,
: soft enough that the blade will cut them with no problem should they get
: in its path, and light enough that they won't cause me any damage should
: they get flung back at me. Short ones don't have enough mass to even knock
: my safety glasses off, either.
: PGJ
Not to be arguementative about this issue Paul but those are the reasons I tell folks NOT to use little sticks.
Stiff enough maybe, but, too little to do a SAFE and affective job. You not only need something to push the work-piece through the blade, but also apply downward pressure on it to keep it from lifting up.
Soft enough could cause a problem as well in that the blade could catch them and shatter them, and if you are " Pushing " on it, where does your hand go???? Forward and down!
Light enough can also equate to weak and if one should catch the blade and shatter, CAN end up in your hand, if you are lucky enough to miss the blade when going forward.
I am not a proponent of the long skinny push-sticks. I think they are good for pushing the material, but little else when it comes to safety. My post above shows the Old Shoe that I use and I find that it solves all these areas of concern.
Granted, I don't use finger boards, so my push-stick also serves to do that job as well. If you are using a finger board above the workpiece, especially something as small as a 1/4" strip, you can't push the strip all the way through with the push stick, but will instead have to push the waste side and the strip is left free, sitting behind the blade, when the cut is complete.
With my ole shoe, you follow the strip all the way through and out behind the blade and just lift the shoe off the work. You can keep the pressure on the strip and workpiece ( waste side ) so that they don't lift up or kick back at the same time. Positive control, all the time. I've posted pics above and show what I'm talking about.
Rehd
Messages In This Thread
- Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
Ken -- 4/2/2001, 1:56 am- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
Scott E. Davis -- 4/6/2001, 2:03 pm- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
Jim Lindamood -- 4/3/2001, 8:34 am- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
Rehd -- 4/4/2001, 1:51 am- Ice pick?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/3/2001, 10:33 pm- Re: Ice pick?
MikeWhy -- 4/3/2001, 11:39 pm- scrap strips are great push sticks
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/4/2001, 12:47 am- Re: scrap strips are great push sticks
Rehd -- 4/4/2001, 1:43 am
- Re: scrap strips are great push sticks
- scrap strips are great push sticks
- Ice pick?
- Then again, why bother?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/3/2001, 12:09 am- Re: Exactly
Grant Goltz -- 4/4/2001, 1:41 pm
- An opposite viewpt
mike allen ---> -- 4/2/2001, 4:00 pm- Call me old fashioned but....
Jay Babina -- 4/2/2001, 10:43 am- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
John Monfoe -- 4/2/2001, 5:32 am- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Long Planks
Ken -- 4/2/2001, 8:56 am- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Long Planks
Rob Macks -- 4/2/2001, 9:51 am- Re: Nothing wrong with a crooked board
Grant Goltz -- 4/4/2001, 1:27 pm- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Long Planks
Ken -- 4/2/2001, 4:44 pm - Re: Trueing One Edge Of Long Planks
- Re: Nothing wrong with a crooked board
- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Long Planks
- Re: Truing One Edge Of Long Planks
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/2/2001, 3:07 am- Re: Truing One Edge Of Long Planks
Rehd -- 4/2/2001, 3:45 am
- Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
Rehd -- 4/2/2001, 2:57 am - Re: Trueing One Edge Of Lonk Planks
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