shop tips #1: fingers tired ? use your thumb or palm

Very Nice!! Safety First! Great examples!

-- Chris - Baltimore, MD http://baltimorewoodworking.com/

Good information David

Thanks

-- She thought I hung the moon--now she just thinks I did it wrong

in conjunction together
these serve a double duty

as they keep your hands from the cutters and blades

a real finger saver

just keep running boards thru butted to each other

just use a thiner ‘push stick’
for the last one
and stop tool
before removing stick

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Great ideas, Mr. Patron. I’m always looking for ways to keep stuff where it’s supposed to be. Thank you.

-- Dragonsrite, Minnesota

Where were you when I rabbeted my middle finger…

-- jack -- ...measure once, curse twice!

Rather ingenious Mate…

-- Drink twice... and don't bother to cut... @ larrysworkshop.wordpress.com For lovers of all things timber...

two thumbs up!

-- There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane. - http://timetestedtools.wordpress.com (timetestedtools at hotmail dot c0m)

Very handy hold downs.
I like the idea of keeping all my fingers!!!
Thanks for sharing these.
Another line on my “To-Do” list!!!

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!

All good safety tips David.

-- Mike, American in Norway

great tip! Send that one to the magazines and win yourself some gift certificates.

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

It took me awhile to SEE it on the #2 feather / spring board… couldn’t see the space below it! LOL

That is ONE COOL feather board!

#1 spring board is really COOL TOO!

... and with Plans & ALL!

Thank you very much, David!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

Cool Idea, beats using my actual thumb :)

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

you got that right martin

sure is easier
than using bananas and coconuts
to work with

but some of us woodworkers
never do get
to far from the trees

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Great tips. Thanks for sharing.

Your #2 hold down is going to help me a bunch. I’ve been trying to figure out how to hold down smaller / shorter stock safer on the table saw.

I had bought one of the plastic half-round finger gadgets that was supposed to be the answer. Getting it actually to mount and work never met my expectations.

Steve.