Puckdropper puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

"J. Clarke" wrote in
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*snip*

My suggestion would be the Kreg featherboards, a set of cheap
pushblocks (unless you want to splurge on the GRR-Rip stuff), and make
him one of the bird-mouth sticks and whatever else you think he might
need.




I hate the birds-mouth push sticks. I consider them unreasonably
dangerous. Try this: Take a pencil or an ink pen and push down on the
edge of a domino at a 45 degree angle (Like a birds mouth stick). (Or
anything relatively the hardness and general shape of a piece of wood.)
Notice what happens? The opposite end lifts, which would be the part of
the wood on the upward bound teeth. Don't give kickback a place to
start--use a shoe.

A shoe push stick is too simple and too easy to make to not have one.
All you need to do is take a 2x4 about 6" long and a 1x2 about 3 1/2"
long. Screw the 1x2 to the end of the 2x4 so the 1x2 extends 1/4-1/2"
below the bottom edge of the 2x4. Done!

You can vary the design to fit your needs, some like to put handles
(dowel rods will work) on them, longer ones may be useful as well.

I find this design works well for the bandsaw. Turn the push block on
its side, and it can then be used to push the wood the rest of the way
through the blade with your fingers safely out of the way.

Puckdropper

+1

more rocket surgery

http://www.ibuildit.ca/Workshop%20Pr...tricks-22.html