On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:08:43 -0400, "firstjois"
wrote:

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Jay Windley" wrote in message ...
turning
off and disarming equipment and letting it come to a stop before
reaching near the moving parts.

Patience. You can spend 10 minutes cutting on the bandsaw or table
saw but it seems so long waiting the 15 seconds or so for the blade
to stop before moving away the scrap. Very tempting to just reach
in and grab.

Isn't that why you should have a push stick in each hand? I started out
making neat push sticks maybe 18" long by about 3/4 and cutting a neat "v"
or 45 degree angle in the pointed in and then round up the handle end to
just fit comfortably in my hand. I'd take off a chunk here and chunk there
and they'd get shorter and shorter 'til I'd throw them away. Now I make
then a lot less often (fewer "Oops") and with a lot less fuss. The "shoe"
type I haven't damaged at all so far.

Josie

I was showing a friend that's getting into woodworking my old
shopsmith push stick.. one of those red plastic ones with the notch in
the end...
it got retired years ago with too many notches and dings in it and
better designs available, but it sure is a good teaching tool.. *g*
I told him that every ding in it was one that wasn't on my HANDS, and
to keep that in mind no matter how "safe" a tool seems at the time..