On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:15:26 -0700, Mark & Juanita
wrote:

A blind emerging cut 1/4" high with a 3 1/2" high workpiece is considered
hazardous?

I can't see how big the workpiece is from that picture. Maybe it's not
really that hazardous.

It's certainly _considered_ hazardous - the HSE are having a real
thing about emerging cuts. Looking at the actual stats for hand
injuries, they seem to have a point. We might all just be careless
drunks working with our eyes shut, but that's when the injuries are
happening.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis18.pdf

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/woodindx.htm

Just how would one make such a roundover in the UK?

Same way as in the picture - but not feeding it with your fingers.

For a commercial workshop there's a strong pressure to fit tunnel
guards for this find of work

To be honest, you're going to find no (UK) school workshops and very
few colleges with spindle moulders.


Surely a
hand-held router would be considered even more dangerous

Depends on circumstances. There's a good working principle in PUWER
which says that works should be done on the least-risk machine - which
means the fixed vertical spindle, if you have one. However spindle
moulders have a bad reputation in the UK and many people avoid having
one altogether - leaving them with the free router.


I think you are underestimating young teens.

I'm probably underestimating that one, but deliberately so. You have
to plan around the worst behaved and least attentive of the group.
This is also the one most likely to whine "But _Siirr_, you let Sammy
Maloof use the bandsaw!"

If you can filter the group, perhaps a woodworking club, then you can
achieve a lot more. Your best pupils are still the same, but you don't
have to account for the less able or committed to the same extent.
--
Smert' spamionam