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I hope everyone of you will take time to read this article. As Shopsmith owners, we have have some protection against kickback available to us for many, many years and yet some of us experience kickback.

I wonder why?

dusty wrote:I hope everyone of you will take time to read this article. As Shopsmith owners, we have have some protection against kickback available to us for many, many years and yet some of us experience kickback.

I wonder why?

Thank you Dusty, the answers are rather basic and use equipment most of us have on hand. I wonder why we take shortcuts that are destined to injure us????? Jim:rolleyes:

A very close friend of both my wife and I who is a tremendous woodworker was showing me his Powermatic cabinet saw which is really the Cadillac of saws in my opinion and he said look back there. So I turned around and about 25' behind the saw (where the user would be standing feeding the stock into the saw) about 12 ft. up the wal was a huge hole. I said what the heck is that? he said that was from a hunk of Oak that he was cutting that kicked back and shot behind him and stuck into the wall. If that had hit him I shudder to think what the outcome would have been.

I know that I have been very lax in my table saw safety and I will not be from now on after reading that article and seeing that hole in the wall it scared me sufficiently to pay more attention to my own safety. Thanks for posting the link!

I hate to be a struck record, but that's a great looking "shoe" he's using to push that piece with.

Paul M

shipwright wrote:I hate to be a struck record, but that's a great looking "shoe" he's using to push that piece with.

Paul M

Keep ramming it home. It's an important saftey precaution and it's far better than the push stick. I use mine every time. I am going to make a larger one like that shown. Actually, several sizes are good to have on hand.

beeg wrote:And here's how to sail plywood.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=326024557203395619#docid=-8563035120400465443

If you're dumb enough to treat a tablesaw like that you might as well stand behind it.

Paul M

We inherited a number of large, shoe like push boards. Skinny ones that slip right up along side the blade, thick ones, huge ones that ride the fence. I've come to love them.

I've no desire to ever go back to the conventional push stick after using them.

foxtrapper wrote:We inherited a number of large, shoe like push boards. Skinny ones that slip right up along side the blade, thick ones, huge ones that ride the fence. I've come to love them.

I've no desire to ever go back to the conventional push stick after using them.

Do you have pics? This sounds like something we all need.

The beauty of the shoe is that it is meant to be consumed. It doesn't have to fit between the fence and the blade. On thin cuts it simply gets a cut in it. When it has too much cut away to be useful, you throw it away and make a few more or recut the bottom and start again.

Paul M