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Useful, practical, necessary for safety. Quick and simple, fit to the hand; definitely worth the time! When I was 18 (a half century ago!), sweeping floors and catching the outfeed from the thickness planers and moulders in a cabinet shop, I watched as the apprentice took off half of his index finger in a similar way, before he knew it...
Danish Carpenters ...My grandfather was missing several "end of fingers" 5 or 6 nails missing and most lost to the jointer. ha ha love your channels and I admire your skills and knowledge thanks for sharing.
It's the things like putting the handles at an angle that make your homemade tools so much superior to mine. However, now I've learned a new technique. Thank you.
John, nice video! I enjoyed seeing the different tools and stations in your shop as you used each during the process. Must give you a great deal of satisfaction? Wish I was half that organized! Thanks, Jim
I really loved seeing the setup of the router table. It gave an interesting look at your shop layout and organization. Also love the tricks you use for tracing the handle curves!
Now that's a video. Liked: follow around, shop org and storage, lay out of work. actual project, good editing. You're getting pretty high on my list now as I never miss a new vid, even if I think I'm not interested, because in the end I am.
I agree. Even if John is working on a project that doesn't particularly interesting, I always find a few gold nuggets on technique or ideas to apply to whatever I'm working on. Plus, John is just one of those guys I could listen to all day.
This is the kind of video I love. It's just enough to inspire me and spark my brain in ways you may have never intended to do when you set out to build push pads. First of all, helpful tip on mortising those handles. I'm certain to try that next. Secondly, the router bit roll out cabinet thingy is amazing. I love the organizational efficiency of that drawer of gems. You're now like this jeweller of router bits!! Excellent planning and execution of the video editing. I'm noticing a transition into yet another step above in your videos. Fantastic!
It's awesome to see your home made machines making homemade machines. Awesome idea on recessing the handle into the pad. I would not have thought of that. Or putting the curve on the lower part of the handle.
Wooooow i love your videos. the way your shops laidbout and the all your tools. e.g the table saw. the router table. the band saw they all look so original and unique. well done sir.
Great build 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Good story of what can happen, and why we need to practice safety The router table looking good with how easy you can use it from the stored home you made for it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nice and timely project. I need some of these. Funny, the 12" jointer in my high school shop (1985-ish) was a military surplus machine with 20 notches on the top of the fence. Our teacher would start the demo on this machine by removing the guard, turning it on and then feeding a closet rod almost vertically into the cutterhead as fast has he could. Then he told us the notches represented fingers lost. I about peed myself the first time I used that thing.
Driftless Joinery i remember on day 1 the shop teacher running a frozen hot dog through the jointer. It was gone in 1 second. All he said was "thats your finger."
First time writing... Simply...love this clip. Especially..when the handles were laid down, corner to corner. You are one of my favorite...woodworker mentor, thanks. Luis...
Man, they came out great and I just love your set up. Everything is so neat and where it should be, fantastic. I'm definitely going to use some of your ideas for my shop, if you don't mind. Great job. This was my first video I watched and now you just got a new subscriber. Thanks 👍🏼😉
I really like the idea of putting that matting on the bottom of the blocks: makes a lot of sense. I think I'll try adding it to my existing blocks and my table saw push stick and see how it works out. Thanks for the tip!
Cool project! I think the head shots with the action camera match really nicely with the voice over and the over all editing style you used! Although the DSLR shooting is always sharper and more cinematographic, I think I really enjoyed this one! :)
Even in perfect light, the action camera doesn't even come close and I have to add a lot of noise reduction to get is as good as it is in the video. The bigger cameras have us spoiled :)
I like the mortise idea for the handles! I just used screws on mine. After a few close calls with my machine, I think about your friend Focus everytime I use my machine, and that helps a lot!
Simple project, but verry nice, and what a well organized shop ! :-) The only thing i was missing was the homemade box cutter. Superb quality like always sir.
Yep, I have two fingers on my left hand that are a bit shorter than the ones on the right hand. And, yes, it was a jointer, and yes, I did know better. I wasn't using a pusher while I was trying to thin down a small piece of stock. My fingers were far forward on the piece when it snagged a little, and when I pushed harder to get it past the snag the piece flipped up in back and my fingers rotated into the head. I must have already been pulling back from it or else my hand would have gone full into the cutters. As it was, my middle and ring fingers just touched the head, but not on the very tips. Those fingers were bend under such that the cutters gouged into them about 3/8 to 1/2 inch back, chewing up bone on the ends, and leaving the very tips hanging. So at the e-ward a plastic surgeon left them on but a little shorter than before. Quite a good job--about fifty stitches. BTW, I took the swinging guard off or else I wouldn't have been able to do what I needed in the first place, and in fact if I had tried to do it with the guard, it would have been more dangerous. That's the thing about guards sometimes. Doing something with them in place can be more dangerous in certain circumstances. In this particular incident, I didn't need a guard, I needed the kind of pushers you made here in this video.
I took the pad off my middle finger on New Year's Day, because I was only using one push block and my hand at the rear, whilst planing thin material. 3 hours in Accident and Emergency, several weeks of healing and I have most of my fingerprints back plus some nice scar tissue. I could easily have lost the finger, great video, far too easy to become complacent with those fast spinning metal blades. That push block design is excellent. Thank you Tim
Lovely! I'd like to try making them with a solid wood base, maybe an inch thick, and slightly taller handles so that my knuckles are in less danger. I love the fact that you mortised the handles right into the base negating the need for any metal fasteners. I would never have thought of that. It was a bit scary seeing how close your fingers came to the router bit at 2:42 when you were rounding over the handle edges though.
I like your idea on the mounting of the handles, just incase there might be a chance that the push pads ever meet the cutter blades there is no metal to ruin the blades. Great solution John!
Yeah, I can relate to this as I had a new CO2 laser cutter and my little finger (near the palm) got in the way of the invisible beam and I hit pulse and it felt like lightning/electricity had hit me and I jolted back and it had grazed burned it. It is almost fully healed but no more body parts near any path the beam travels for me because if that beam had hit full on it would have been way worse. The nasty thing about a laser is that it will burn deep (luckily it is not the concentrated dot) and cauterize the wound at the same time so the damage to nerve endings, etc..., could be far worse than it lets on.
Non Polyurethane Construction adhesive glue AND safety!? What channel IS this. Very nice project. I need to find that grippy stuff, that's what's come off my purchased ones and made them less... grippy. I never would have thought to put the handles at an angle but it seems to put your hands in a more natural position while keeping the base straight.
Colin on woodworkweb did a video on making these and used screws and had a ton of comments on the metal hitting the blade. I was thinking that if a blade ever hit a screw the blade would be the last thing to worry about. I think the thing that was confusing people was he was using them on the table saw to do rabbits and most associate table saw with pushsticks which are sacrificial.
I can't help but think of the video "Smack my #%^&% up" by The Prodigy whenever you use that point of view camera. Only the content is slightly different. Thanks for sharing all of your videos.
Hey John! Love your POV shots, do you think you could make an unedited POV video of you working in the shop for hours, it doesnt need to a regular thing, just one project or one day, whichever fits you better. I know it would probably fill up your SD card quite fast depending on its size, but I would love to see how you actually use your Worshop. :) Thanks anyway, have a nice day! Greetings from Hungary!
Does it make sense to add a small tab at the back on one of them, to help push a piece forward? Less downward pressure would be needed on each pass, maybe. Thanks for posting.
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that's some fine shop organization...the vertical pull out drawers for router bits.
Useful, practical, necessary for safety. Quick and simple, fit to the hand; definitely worth the time! When I was 18 (a half century ago!), sweeping floors and catching the outfeed from the thickness planers and moulders in a cabinet shop, I watched as the apprentice took off half of his index finger in a similar way, before he knew it...
Man, your layout skills are the bomb! Just a pleasure to watch.
Danish Carpenters ...My grandfather was missing several "end of fingers" 5 or 6 nails missing and most lost to the jointer. ha ha
love your channels and I admire your skills and knowledge thanks for sharing.
I use an old wagon tire inner tube for making small sheets of rubber used for a gripping surface. Thanks for the video!
It's the things like putting the handles at an angle that make your homemade tools so much superior to mine. However, now I've learned a new technique. Thank you.
Smashing the roll of tape to adjust the curve is awesome.
Really digging the first person perspective shots!
John, nice video! I enjoyed seeing the different tools and stations in your shop as you used each during the process. Must give you a great deal of satisfaction? Wish I was half that organized! Thanks, Jim
I really loved seeing the setup of the router table. It gave an interesting look at your shop layout and organization. Also love the tricks you use for tracing the handle curves!
I love your shop. Obviously was a labor of love putting that all together.
Now that's a video. Liked: follow around, shop org and storage, lay out of work. actual project, good editing. You're getting pretty high on my list now as I never miss a new vid, even if I think I'm not interested, because in the end I am.
I agree. Even if John is working on a project that doesn't particularly interesting, I always find a few gold nuggets on technique or ideas to apply to whatever I'm working on. Plus, John is just one of those guys I could listen to all day.
You're the king of having random stuff stocked in your shop, great build!
Love it. I really like your resourcefulness - bending the tape roll for a shake you like. Great vid as always john!
Great video! I like the quick and dirty builds that always turn out visually pleasing. Good job.
This is the kind of video I love. It's just enough to inspire me and spark my brain in ways you may have never intended to do when you set out to build push pads. First of all, helpful tip on mortising those handles. I'm certain to try that next. Secondly, the router bit roll out cabinet thingy is amazing. I love the organizational efficiency of that drawer of gems. You're now like this jeweller of router bits!! Excellent planning and execution of the video editing. I'm noticing a transition into yet another step above in your videos. Fantastic!
It's awesome to see your home made machines making homemade machines. Awesome idea on recessing the handle into the pad. I would not have thought of that. Or putting the curve on the lower part of the handle.
Thanks for sharing. I especially liked seeing how your shop functions with your tool storage. Inspiring.
Wooooow i love your videos. the way your shops laidbout and the all your tools. e.g the table saw. the router table. the band saw they all look so original and unique. well done sir.
Looks like you did a nice job getting it all tuned up.
Very satisfying last scene, Like butter ! Thanks for sharing !
Like the mortise touch. Thanks.
Your router table and storage compartments are absolutely amazing !
Angled handles are a great idea. And I think your method of mortising with forstner bits is quite adequate. Two new ideas in one video. Thanks.
Great build 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good story of what can happen, and why we need to practice safety
The router table looking good with how easy you can use it from the stored home you made for it
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great idea for the push pads John, thanks for sharing.
Dude your not just carpenter, you are an engineer!
Nice and timely project. I need some of these.
Funny, the 12" jointer in my high school shop (1985-ish) was a military surplus machine with 20 notches on the top of the fence. Our teacher would start the demo on this machine by removing the guard, turning it on and then feeding a closet rod almost vertically into the cutterhead as fast has he could. Then he told us the notches represented fingers lost.
I about peed myself the first time I used that thing.
Driftless Joinery i remember on day 1 the shop teacher running a frozen hot dog through the jointer. It was gone in 1 second. All he said was "thats your finger."
First time writing... Simply...love this clip. Especially..when the handles were laid down, corner to corner. You are one of my favorite...woodworker mentor, thanks. Luis...
Man, they came out great and I just love your set up. Everything is so neat and where it should be, fantastic. I'm definitely going to use some of your ideas for my shop, if you don't mind. Great job. This was my first video I watched and now you just got a new subscriber. Thanks 👍🏼😉
Nice and smooth sound, that jointer seems awesome !
You're a freaking artist with the drill press. Cheers! Chris.
I really like the idea of putting that matting on the bottom of the blocks: makes a lot of sense. I think I'll try adding it to my existing blocks and my table saw push stick and see how it works out. Thanks for the tip!
great video-- short, sweet and to the point.
That gotta be my favorite video of yours so far.
Best video in a long time! I really enjoyed it!
I need a pair of those as well!
Thanks for the tip! Greetings from Chile!
Loved the story and would love to hear more. Keep them short though!
Cool project! I think the head shots with the action camera match really nicely with the voice over and the over all editing style you used! Although the DSLR shooting is always sharper and more cinematographic, I think I really enjoyed this one! :)
Even in perfect light, the action camera doesn't even come close and I have to add a lot of noise reduction to get is as good as it is in the video. The bigger cameras have us spoiled :)
lol, that's a fact!
I like the mortise idea for the handles! I just used screws on mine. After a few close calls with my machine, I think about your friend Focus everytime I use my machine, and that helps a lot!
Great video thanks John.
Amazing John, very cool.
Nice to see you doing a safety video! Haha Nice simple design and build. Cheers and thanks, David
A super handy helper to plan.
I gotta say John, I’m a fan of all of your vids, but I really dig the POV GoPro film.
Great video, love the camera angles. Gonna have to build me some now.
A useful tool. Thanks.
John starts thinking at 4:16 "watch the boys, watch the boys..."!
very good video simple but fantastic push blocks
Best video in a while!!
You're genius John! Super like 😁👍!
Sick control over the forstner bit John. I’ve tried that & it’s not easy.
Cheap solution for the grippy stuff is shelf or drawer liner (not the contact-paper stuff, the thin foamy stuff - $10/roll at Home Depot).
Professional grade as always. Inspires me to edit a video today, probably won't but I feel inspired.
Simple project, but verry nice, and what a well organized shop ! :-)
The only thing i was missing was the homemade box cutter.
Superb quality like always sir.
Love that jointer!
Yep, I have two fingers on my left hand that are a bit shorter than the ones on the right hand. And, yes, it was a jointer, and yes, I did know better. I wasn't using a pusher while I was trying to thin down a small piece of stock. My fingers were far forward on the piece when it snagged a little, and when I pushed harder to get it past the snag the piece flipped up in back and my fingers rotated into the head. I must have already been pulling back from it or else my hand would have gone full into the cutters. As it was, my middle and ring fingers just touched the head, but not on the very tips. Those fingers were bend under such that the cutters gouged into them about 3/8 to 1/2 inch back, chewing up bone on the ends, and leaving the very tips hanging. So at the e-ward a plastic surgeon left them on but a little shorter than before. Quite a good job--about fifty stitches.
BTW, I took the swinging guard off or else I wouldn't have been able to do what I needed in the first place, and in fact if I had tried to do it with the guard, it would have been more dangerous. That's the thing about guards sometimes. Doing something with them in place can be more dangerous in certain circumstances. In this particular incident, I didn't need a guard, I needed the kind of pushers you made here in this video.
John Heisz the safety king. Looks good, I was waiting for you to post a video after you showed them off earlier.
Great Project! 👍
Great reminder
Cool project! Thanks for sharing.
amazing video!
I took the pad off my middle finger on New Year's Day, because I was only using one push block and my hand at the rear, whilst planing thin material. 3 hours in Accident and Emergency, several weeks of healing and I have most of my fingerprints back plus some nice scar tissue. I could easily have lost the finger, great video, far too easy to become complacent with those fast spinning metal blades. That push block design is excellent. Thank you Tim
I like the headcam view. People should use that more often. Most of the time it's going to have the angle you need.
Nice use of the tape as a taplate. Never thought of squeezing it would be an option.
That's a very nice and good solution for the top of your jointer! I think I could use the solution for a drum sander that I'll build someday! 😃
Gotta keep the fingers. Thanks for the video.
Lovely!
I'd like to try making them with a solid wood base, maybe an inch thick, and slightly taller handles so that my knuckles are in less danger. I love the fact that you mortised the handles right into the base negating the need for any metal fasteners. I would never have thought of that.
It was a bit scary seeing how close your fingers came to the router bit at 2:42 when you were rounding over the handle edges though.
That was pretty cool.
Excellent John I'm going to make some of these as like you I'm terrified about losing a finger or two. Thanks for sharing
Superb .
That is awesome!
I like your idea on the mounting of the handles, just incase there might be a chance that the push pads ever meet the cutter blades there is no metal to ruin the blades. Great solution John!
So glad you did this! I couldn't stomach watching your previous testing video where you weren't using any push blocks at all!
That must have been traumatic for you Pete, will you need therapy?
craig horton A few hours alone in a room with my push blocks fixed me right up! lol
quick and nice
Yeah, I can relate to this as I had a new CO2 laser cutter and my little finger (near the palm) got in the way of the invisible beam and I hit pulse and it felt like lightning/electricity had hit me and I jolted back and it had grazed burned it. It is almost fully healed but no more body parts near any path the beam travels for me because if that beam had hit full on it would have been way worse. The nasty thing about a laser is that it will burn deep (luckily it is not the concentrated dot) and cauterize the wound at the same time so the damage to nerve endings, etc..., could be far worse than it lets on.
Hands down one of the better set of push blocks I've seen for the jointer... ;) (pun intended)
do a video of a flying board. you know you thought about letting one fly off of it lol.... good video as always man thanks
4:20 like the Happy-End of a Disney Movie
nice!
safety 1st - very good
Interesting story i think I am going to make this
Nice
Bloody top stuff buddy, Liked also your layout of router table etc. Do you have a video on how you made it also?? Thanks Teddy
John Save your old mouse pads they work great
Shit ya! Love the mortise idea! A+ my man!
Non Polyurethane Construction adhesive glue AND safety!? What channel IS this. Very nice project. I need to find that grippy stuff, that's what's come off my purchased ones and made them less... grippy. I never would have thought to put the handles at an angle but it seems to put your hands in a more natural position while keeping the base straight.
Colin on woodworkweb did a video on making these and used screws and had a ton of comments on the metal hitting the blade. I was thinking that if a blade ever hit a screw the blade would be the last thing to worry about. I think the thing that was confusing people was he was using them on the table saw to do rabbits and most associate table saw with pushsticks which are sacrificial.
I can't help but think of the video "Smack my #%^&% up" by The Prodigy whenever you use that point of view camera. Only the content is slightly different. Thanks for sharing all of your videos.
2:09 its like watching john wick get ready to assassination lol
the best thing to do is a protection whitch prevents you from passing your hands over the blades ( sorry for my english)
Being John Heisz. I am going to dig out my cardboard vr glasses for this
Hey John! Love your POV shots, do you think you could make an unedited POV video of you working in the shop for hours, it doesnt need to a regular thing, just one project or one day, whichever fits you better. I know it would probably fill up your SD card quite fast depending on its size, but I would love to see how you actually use your Worshop. :)
Thanks anyway, have a nice day! Greetings from Hungary!
Real ambitious there, John, building a jointer. Is it the challange? Or what? What drives you to build tools like this?
Does it make sense to add a small tab at the back on one of them, to help push a piece forward? Less downward pressure would be needed on each pass, maybe. Thanks for posting.
Helo nice and safety. this solution is very simple to do. excuse me for my englihs alexis from france
Great video John! (at this time you must have a really strong jaw xD!)
very nice easy project, just my speed! Is it better for the handles to be diagonal?
excellent project - watch your bird on that belt.