"George" wrote in message ...
Only one dangerous part - so keep your fingers away. Now as to how to get
work done while avoiding, any basic woodworking text should cover it. Make
sure you have push blocks for surfacing, and a push board for edging the
small stuff, and that's about it.


If it's real small edge it with a handplane. Safer and does a better job.
To do very small parts clamp the lane in the vise bottom up, or hold it
in your lap with one hand and draw the work accross it with the other
hand.

However, back to the jointer. One other concern is kick-back. I've
never seen kickback from a jointer but it can catapult the board back
opposite to the direction you are feeding it so don't let anyone
you care for stand there and don't put anything you don't want broken
there either.

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