On 8/10/10 11:10 AM, Kevin wrote:
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:47:58 -0500,
wrote:

If you are needing downward pressure on a jig or stock, enough to bend a
1/2" MDF ZCI, there is either something very wrong with your saw or you
are doing something very wrong.

Okay I dare you or anyone else that's said I'm doing something unsafe
to cut a piece of 1/2" MDF that is 14" long and 2.5" wide (The width
of my insert on the right side of the blade), support it at the ends
and then try to flex it with ONE FINGER.

Then try the same thing with 1/2" Baltic Birch ply. You can use your
whole hand this time.

Then come back here and tell me I'm doing something wrong by using the
one that doesn't flex.



-Kevin

I didn't say you were doing anything wrong by using the one that didn't
flex, but nice attempt at trying to change the subject without anyone
noticing. :-p

What we're saying is that any operation (and specifically your tenoning
technique) which causes you to push the stock downward to the table and
subsequently, the blade, is not only bad woodworking technique, but very
dangerous technique.



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