My trusty table saw helped quite a bit with my LR3 build, pre-cutting struts, fast and accurate pieces of Ryan’s torsion box table, and even being a handy table to stack all the pieces.
It was feeling neglected, so to honor it, I made it a fancy push stick, out of some pretty nice oak plywood scrap.
Found the olde tyme saw handle SVG file in some dark corner of the internet, and designed a replaceable “blade”. The smaller handle was the first wood cut on my new lr3, worked fantastic, but was a little too small for my hand. 30 seconds later it was resized to my exact hand dimensions, gotta love CAD! Finished the job on a little router table.
This thing will be a joy to use, feels perfect in my hand! Maybe I’ll make a saw…
I never felt very confident or secure with push-sticks though, ever since I printed a “Grrr-ripper” clone, I only use this at te table saw and router table, it’s so much more secure
I love my grrrripper etc, but sometimes I find this style is handy. Plus one can never have too many push sticks!
I might make a little caddy that holds it on the fence for convenience.
I’ll definitely get the cleaned up DXF up on printables soon.
I’ve had a couple pretty much since they were invented. They revolutionised TS safety IMHO, particularly when cutting small pieces.
I wouldn’t use them for cutting sheet materials, but the way they control material on both sides of the blade makes any sort of kickback impossible.
I don’t particularly enjoy having my hand over the blade, but I can’t think of why it’s unsafe, providing you have the blade set less than the height of the grrrippers of course. On the other hand I have had two “scares” using push sticks, both my fault - one where after the cut I accidentally dropped the end of the stick into the still spinning blade. Let’s just say I was lucky that time.
