Hello I'm an older woman that does woodworking and a bit of welding, you make me proud to be a woman doing things I love to do so thank you for being such an amazing woman, I'm a 64 year old woman and still enjoy making things. Thank you for sharing your journey. Sincerely Carylon
You impress me. You are fearless. By that I mean that you choose to embrace new ideas and try things, and also you try things and embrace new ideas. I am a carpenter who really enjoys innovation. Though I do different things different ways, I respect what you are doing. Please keep the positive attitude. Far too few builders and innovators are able to retain this over the years. James
I know this is an old video and Jay Bates’ was much older. Just yesterday, I recalled Jay’s and made one of his push sticks to give to my son along with my table saw. I should have checked your library first, April, as you always have such great ideas. Now I want to make him another one with your adjustable stop.
It's great to see you are wearing proper foot wear. So many wood workers on utube wearing sandles and flipflops. Nothing wrong with weekend woriors but most pro builders will never wear flipflops. Times are a changing.
I am new to the woodworking craft and I really think your enthusiasm is contagious. Also your ideas are awesome. Never would have thought of the push stick caddy but its awesome!!!
April, I enjoy your videos. You are OCD, however, for organizational neatness (holster for FOUR push sticks), but always entertaining, and because my shop is small, I follow your ideas for storage. Thanks.
I really like that you showed the final product at the beginning. That way, the steps in construction make more sense - the viewer can see where it is going.
Thanks April! Just got my first tablesaw and made a VERY rough version of this today. The first few cuts I made with my tablesaw, before making this push stick, were pretty terrifying if I am being honest. I am very cautious and have been watching safety videos for months so it was mostly me being new, but also that flimsy plastic push stick wasn't cutting it. After making this push stick, the first cut I had to make was a long skinny rip cut and this was AMAZING! I didn't fear for my life for even a second :) Thanks again!
This is a seriously epic push stick. I am going to have to make one like it, with all the little must-have features. I love the sacrificial bottom, and the adjustable plastic bolt & wingnut tail. Pure genius!
I loved how you kept iterating to make constant improvements, including making it look good! Making your workshop a visually appealing place helps stimulate ideas
You have an AMAZING creative mind. More AMAZING than most of the engineers I work with in the aerospace industry. If you were a gardener, you would have solved world hunger. I watch alot of TH-cam videos and I have subscribed to a total of zero channels, but you're really tempting me, temptress!
I also use a long and wide 'shoe' design I came up with ten years ago. I think you would do well to re-think the hand hold hole in the handle favoring a pistol grip type handle. If the shoe gets thrown in a kickback situation with fingers through a hole, your hand will be thrown too. It could cost you a finger or two.
@@mikekernan5388 Mine is made from 2x4 about 15 inches long with the leading tip cut a little shorter, and a hand made handle fitted into the top edge about 6 inches in from the heal. It protrudes upward and a little forward for my hand. I would be glad to shoot you a picture if I can get an address. I have not figured out how to attach a picture to this reply.
3:03 - pretty sure you should be feeding material the other way if between bit and fence. That direction can result in the bit grabbing it and throwing it out the other side. Ask me how I know...
Didn't read all the comments to see if this was mentioned, but don't run stock between the router bit and fence like at 3:00. The bit can pull the stock through, very fast and violently.
As much as I liked the idea of an adjustable pushstick, what amazes me, is the (dis)proportion between the effect (pushstick) and the cost: the value of all the different machines used in the process.
Hi April, thx for showing. I solved the hook mechanics a bit different, so that you do not have to care about adjusting the back stop. Maybe you can adjust that for your push stick design as well. thx for the video
Like the push stick and the caddy. Made a version without the replaceable bottom. Since I had the parts, installed Microjig dovetail hardware (but I do like the plastic screws and wing nut) to make the cleat adjustable. Thank you for the idea
Great video April (as always!), and I always appreciate your candor in ideas that didn't work as well as you'd like. One suggestion - instead of routing a dado on the back of the push stick, and then having to cut that fancy raised tenon on your tail stock every time you replace the tail, you could reverse those. Glue a 3/8 inch X 3/8 inch (or so, depending on the thickness of your push stick) tenon to the back of your push stick so that when you have to replace the tail, just cut a dado through the length of your new tail stock to fit the permanent tenon. I think that might be easier for replacement of tails when they get cut up. BUT...keep up the great videos April, your ideas are incredibly helpful and you have a great way of explaining what and why. I LOVE THEM!
I have only just come across your videos and have watched many of them back to back. You are such an inspiration to go do stuff (just wish I had the space). Nothing seems to be too much of a challenge I love the fact that you are so cheerful and down to earth, its fascinating to see how you keep developing your ideas as you go and that you explain everything in such an easy to understand way without coming across as patronising. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to watching many more.
Agreed, the organizer is a great idea. But I will already tell you the tallest push stick goes in the organizer cubby furthest away from the fence, not closest to it.
I agree with Christofix here, the caddy organizer is fantastic, no more fumbling for what is needed. That's a great time saver as well and super simple to make!! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi, is it necesary to tighten the nut every time? If no, then you could use a lose dovetail dado for the stop block and eliminate the screw. You just have to check that the block moves freely with gravity and to prevent from falling out you could just use a pin that goes through the slot... (maybe a smaller slot with a wooden dowel would do the job)
nice video April. love the process you went through. BTW the saw stop will only trigger if you are physically touching the metal at the same time it comes into contact with the blade. I have cut through many nails with mine without issue.
I really enjoyed you showing your process. I have been really bugged by this height problem and kept struggling with a solution (besides continuously making hack-job/different-height sticks. The caddy is great too. P.S. amazing sound effects...
Actually Bosch is not selling their Reaxx model anymore due to patent infringement. There are a few still available but the overwhelming consensus is Sawstop has better flesh detecting technology with fewer false activations combined with pro quality that matches any standard shop saw.
i like the results! just made something similar to your design. only significant difference in design is instead of the sliding dovetail bottom, i just glued on a sacrificial piece. i decided to save effort now and in the future, won't have to dovetail replacements. just slice the old one off on the saw and glue a new scrap on. i have a another one i made once that i really like, an even wider base of 4", and it's pretty beat up. i may make one based on your design by gluing extra slabs on the sides below the handle cutout.
Have you thought about dovetailing the adjustable stop with an over hang at the top so it wont slide out but it will still adjust without a bolt or anything it just adjust as you set it on the saw table ...I'm gonna build one tomorrow and see how it works .
Love the idea of the tray on saw fence. Very clever and keeps things in their place. In my workflow, I don't like things on top of the fence as I often cut taller things (boxes) where that might get in the way. I need to think how I might be able to adapt this idea. Thanks for the great videos.
great idea with adjustable end stop. what are the measurements of your push-stick? im interested in the height and the distance bestween your hand pushing it and the blade. thanks
April, I love it, good job. It is a brilliant idea to have the sacrificial material on the bottom & done with a dove tail looks great, too. Great of him to show you.
Love the 216 shirt you’re wearing in the talking head shots! I live in Cleveland so super cool to see! Just picked up all the materials I need to build your Miter Saw stand, can’t wait to get it built and save some space in my 1 car garage shop!
Did adding the sliding dove tail piece throw off the adjustable stop, did you cut down the push stick to account for the extra height at the bottom, or make a new adjustable stop? Great stuff, thanks.
I was just about to make some push sticks when I saw your video! Really cool. Also the caddy is a great idea. Very convenient! Great video. Very safe ideas!
Great project! Love the R&D with this project... and the caddy was the cherry on the top! Good call with the plastic "hardware". Thanks for another awesome video!
Great idea. I think I'll do a version with the sacrificial foot glued to the body; easy to trim off at the table saw once used enough. I'm also thinking T-track on the adjustable foot idea (I have some small sections kicking about). Thanks!
Why would the back part need to extend down so far anyways? Doesn't it just help it move forward couldn't something as small as 1/8 of a lip accomplish that? That could do thick and thin stock.
Hi April. I met you at MC19 thus year but i was abit nervous and starstruck. i love your work and the way there presented in your videos. Think il be making.one of these push sticks next week when the kids go bacl to school.
I love your solution! Simple and Efficient! Simplicity is complicated! But this Push Stick is very cool I will do here in Brazil, similar yours. Thx for the video.
Hello, good job! However, I am not sure whether it is easier to make several push sticks with different height tails ( such as 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4) or make one like yours with adjustable tails.
I know your pushstick is based on Jay's design, but do you still have the Sketchup plans for your version? I love the elegant shape of it and the combined slot for your fingers. I think it would allow for me to shift force as i push wood through the cut and it gets further away
Hi April, Beautiful description of the prototypes, and of course also the final product. Also very interesting is the "push-stick box", really convenient to avoid looking for them throughout the workshop, only in some construction saws you have the place to put the "pusher" (not the Breaking Bad kind pusher, of course :-) ) when you don't uses. to the next videos Ciao!
@@AprilWilkerson You are correct, I just noticed that. Read through a few of the lawyer commentaries and while Saw Stop may be in the legal right, I definitely can't argue they're in the moral right. It's hard to side with a company who says they put safety first just to turn around and have them sue the only real competition (who arguably have a better mechanism than just chucking a hunk of aluminum into a spinning blade). That's corporate greed, pure and simple.
3:08 isn't that dangerous running the piece between the outer bit and the fence? Seems that the bit would want to pull the piece through and throw it across the shop? Or is this a router that rotates both ways?
April, why do you feel the need to have any more then a 1/8 inch tail piece? Wouldn't 1/8 inch catch anything beyond 1/8 in just as well and you wouldn't need to take the time to adjust it every time?
Pushing a thicker workpiece through the saw takes more force than 1/8" and I would personally want to have as much of the tail piece registering as possible, for leverage, to avoid slipping, etc. 1/8" isn't much. Your point is valid tho.
@@OutoftheWoodwork while the observation about needing or wanting more than an 1/8" of solid wood to catch and push the workpiece through the saw may be true, it is totally negated by the loose fitting nylon bolt glued in with wood glue. I would think that a 1/8" or 3/16" solid wood lip would provide much more resistance to breaking than the nylon nut setup. At least in my experience it has.
Awesome push stick April. It’s so pretty I wouldn’t want to use it though lol. I love the idea of the replaceable sacrificial foot as well as the tail. I definitely plan on building the caddy though because my push sticks are always falling off of the notch in my fence. I have tried several ways of having them where they would be quick and easy to grab but yours certainly top anything that I’ve tried.
Hi April, Great fun... and a wee bit OTT? Anyway I love your suggestion to attach a caddy to the fence to keep the essentials at hand. I also like the idea to make a sacrificial bottom to the push stick. Thnx, Willem
Great idea with the adjustable tail piece. Just need to give a warning on the routing you do at around 3.03. Never trap the work piece between the cutter and the fence. Small problem is that any deviation from the fence and the cut will be spoiled. Large problem is that you end up with a trapped climb cut and the bit can easily dig into the wood and throw it forward at a speed impossible to control.
I will probably use the organizer idea, the push stick is a little over the top for me at this stage. Really cool, just more work that I need to commit to a push at this point.
Kind of a dangerous cut on the router table at 3:03 and 3:09. Doing a climb cut and sandwiching the workpiece between the bit and the fence are both no-nos on the router table.
Yes, and when she pushed the block through the router table at 2:16 I cringed! I think a dado blade and tenoning jig (or some other jig on the fence) on a tablesaw would have been much safer!
Wonderful idea. I got one if you don't mind I share here... Instead of using threaded bolts with a wingnut I realised you could use some coil to adjust automatically every time by just pushing down the stick until it touches the piece of material you gonna run through the blade... 8-) looking forward to see whats next April !
Fantastic video as always. Just curious how and where did you cut yourself... I couldn't help but notice the blood on your hands. Thank you for the free plans.
Wonderful video in all aspects. Maybe another thing to try with your push stick is to spring load the tailstock piece. It would self adjust every time with no setup at all. Just a thought ... anyway, I love your approach, improvements and efforts to make it not only look good, but work good so well. Cheers!!
First of all you have amazing videos, which for me, are just right for my level of woodworking. Second, I love the large footprint of the push-stick and I'll definitely be making the fence caddy for my SawStop as well. So with that, a thought; how about making the push-stick tail floating instead of fixed so it can just slide up out of the way when not needed but then drop down over the end of the stock when it is needed? That way it's always the right height/thickness for whatever stock you're cutting.
Love the belt sander that can be flipped. I have a very old and HEAVY Makita belt that I built a carriage so I could do the same thing. Works great. The sander still works great for as old as it is so I'll keep using it. Just wondering why you're wearing a 216 area code t-shirt... Cleveland, Ohio? I'm sure there's a story behind that, LOL.
that's awesome to see someone with a Saw Stop. i saw that tech years ago and thought that is so awesome! have you ever had it accidentally activate with especially wet wood?
Great ideas! My two cents on a pencil rolling. No it’s not a carpenter pencil either. I love these pencils, triangle in shape. Has a rubber type coating. Dixon Tri-Conderoga. Once you try one you won’t use your old pencil.
I'm curious about something you said at around the 6:00 mark about setting the correct blade height. I was always taught that the blade is at the correct height when the entire gullet between the two highest teeth (plus a couple of millimetres on top of that) is fully visible above the workpiece. This allows the dust between the teeth to clear properly and also lets the blade cool, thereby reducing burning on the cut edge. When you set what you described as your "correct height", you barely had the cutting edge of the teeth above the workpiece; the gullet was down inside the cut. I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong, I'm just really curious as to how others set the correct cutting height on their blade, simply because that bit of advice I was given has always stuck with me but - for some reason - it doesn't seem to be known to many of youtube's most famous table saw users (or if it is, it's not heeded). Love the push stick by the way!
Hello I'm an older woman that does woodworking and a bit of welding, you make me proud to be a woman doing things I love to do so thank you for being such an amazing woman, I'm a 64 year old woman and still enjoy making things.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Sincerely Carylon
That's great! Thank you for your kind words and thanks for watching.
I lover your sound effects after your caddy is finished and your pretending to use your push sticks!! Funny and helpful!! Thanks
You impress me.
You are fearless.
By that I mean that you choose to embrace new ideas and try things, and also you try things and embrace new ideas.
I am a carpenter who really enjoys innovation.
Though I do different things different ways, I respect what you are doing.
Please keep the positive attitude.
Far too few builders and innovators are able to retain this over the years.
James
I know this is an old video and Jay Bates’ was much older. Just yesterday, I recalled Jay’s and made one of his push sticks to give to my son along with my table saw. I should have checked your library first, April, as you always have such great ideas. Now I want to make him another one with your adjustable stop.
It's great to see you are wearing proper foot wear.
So many wood workers on utube wearing sandles and flipflops.
Nothing wrong with weekend woriors but most pro builders will never wear flipflops.
Times are a changing.
I am new to the woodworking craft and I really think your enthusiasm is contagious. Also your ideas are awesome. Never would have thought of the push stick caddy but its awesome!!!
April, I enjoy your videos. You are OCD, however, for organizational neatness (holster for FOUR push sticks), but always entertaining, and because my shop is small, I follow your ideas for storage. Thanks.
I really like that you showed the final product at the beginning. That way, the steps in construction make more sense - the viewer can see where it is going.
Thanks April! Just got my first tablesaw and made a VERY rough version of this today. The first few cuts I made with my tablesaw, before making this push stick, were pretty terrifying if I am being honest. I am very cautious and have been watching safety videos for months so it was mostly me being new, but also that flimsy plastic push stick wasn't cutting it. After making this push stick, the first cut I had to make was a long skinny rip cut and this was AMAZING! I didn't fear for my life for even a second :) Thanks again!
Awesome! Thank you for Sharing and for watching.
This is a seriously epic push stick. I am going to have to make one like it, with all the little must-have features. I love the sacrificial bottom, and the adjustable plastic bolt & wingnut tail. Pure genius!
I loved how you kept iterating to make constant improvements, including making it look good! Making your workshop a visually appealing place helps stimulate ideas
You have an AMAZING creative mind. More AMAZING than most of the engineers I work with in the aerospace industry. If you were a gardener, you would have solved world hunger. I watch alot of TH-cam videos and I have subscribed to a total of zero channels, but you're really tempting me, temptress!
I also use a long and wide 'shoe' design I came up with ten years ago. I think you would do well to re-think the hand hold hole in the handle favoring a pistol grip type handle. If the shoe gets thrown in a kickback situation with fingers through a hole, your hand will be thrown too. It could cost you a finger or two.
William, sounds like a good adjustment. Would you happen to have a diagram you'd share of how it looks? Mike
@@mikekernan5388 Mine is made from 2x4 about 15 inches long with the leading tip cut a little shorter, and a hand made handle fitted into the top edge about 6 inches in from the heal. It protrudes upward and a little forward for my hand. I would be glad to shoot you a picture if I can get an address. I have not figured out how to attach a picture to this reply.
The caddy, pencil holder (ALWAYS need one, can NEVER find one), and push stick combo is what knocks this over the top.
3:03 - pretty sure you should be feeding material the other way if between bit and fence. That direction can result in the bit grabbing it and throwing it out the other side. Ask me how I know...
I noticed this error in the router operation as well. Did it once myself.
Great push stick design 👏👏 also great to see a guest appearance from probably my favourite woodworking hosts 😊
Your push stick sound effects are the best part of this video! Not to diminish the awesomeness of the build, gonna have to make one... Two? Three?
Didn't read all the comments to see if this was mentioned, but don't run stock between the router bit and fence like at 3:00. The bit can pull the stock through, very fast and violently.
I love how she used a standard push stick at 7:44 even though the ones she made was right there. :P
HAHAHAHAHA . What the heck.
As much as I liked the idea of an adjustable pushstick, what amazes me, is the (dis)proportion between the effect (pushstick) and the cost: the value of all the different machines used in the process.
Hi April, thx for showing. I solved the hook mechanics a bit different, so that you do not have to care about adjusting the back stop. Maybe you can adjust that for your push stick design as well.
thx for the video
The link to tightbond goes to a 404 page. Excellent push stick. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep up the good work.
Like the push stick and the caddy. Made a version without the replaceable bottom. Since I had the parts, installed Microjig dovetail hardware (but I do like the plastic screws and wing nut) to make the cleat adjustable. Thank you for the idea
I don't have a table saw... and I want a walnut push stick; that's gorgeous! Great job April!
Haha! That's awesome. Thank you
Hey... What if you made the push stick/block with a changable sacrificial base/foot of mdf? That way, as you cut up the mdf, the handle stays uncut.
Great video April (as always!), and I always appreciate your candor in ideas that didn't work as well as you'd like. One suggestion - instead of routing a dado on the back of the push stick, and then having to cut that fancy raised tenon on your tail stock every time you replace the tail, you could reverse those. Glue a 3/8 inch X 3/8 inch (or so, depending on the thickness of your push stick) tenon to the back of your push stick so that when you have to replace the tail, just cut a dado through the length of your new tail stock to fit the permanent tenon. I think that might be easier for replacement of tails when they get cut up. BUT...keep up the great videos April, your ideas are incredibly helpful and you have a great way of explaining what and why. I LOVE THEM!
I have only just come across your videos and have watched many of them back to back. You are such an inspiration to go do stuff (just wish I had the space). Nothing seems to be too much of a challenge I love the fact that you are so cheerful and down to earth, its fascinating to see how you keep developing your ideas as you go and that you explain everything in such an easy to understand way without coming across as patronising. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to watching many more.
Great push stick, but I like the pushstick organizer the most, great idea April! This is something I maybe will make for myself too.
Agreed, the organizer is a great idea. But I will already tell you the tallest push stick goes in the organizer cubby furthest away from the fence, not closest to it.
I agree with Christofix here, the caddy organizer is fantastic, no more fumbling for what is needed. That's a great time saver as well and super simple to make!! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi April! Great video! What size dovetail bit did you use on this?
Who has time for all that crap on your table saw that would just get in the way.....
I love the nylon screw idea. I may use that; then I'll just need a SawStop saw to go with it.
Nice push block. Also, great idea on the little jig to ensure straight holes when away from the drill press. Definitely a keeper.
: ) Glad it was helpful, I use that trick often
That guide hole/piece for using the hand drill is a brilliant idea!!!
Hi, is it necesary to tighten the nut every time? If no, then you could use a lose dovetail dado for the stop block and eliminate the screw. You just have to check that the block moves freely with gravity and to prevent from falling out you could just use a pin that goes through the slot... (maybe a smaller slot with a wooden dowel would do the job)
I don't know what I like more. The push stick ideas or your saw pews! lol
nice video April. love the process you went through. BTW the saw stop will only trigger if you are physically touching the metal at the same time it comes into contact with the blade. I have cut through many nails with mine without issue.
I really enjoyed you showing your process. I have been really bugged by this height problem and kept struggling with a solution (besides continuously making hack-job/different-height sticks. The caddy is great too. P.S. amazing sound effects...
Aw man….I was so hoping to find this for sale on your website! You are so fun to watch!
I have the Plans on my website. Here's the Link.
Find plans for the caddy here: bit.ly/343nTgf
Thanks for watching.
Girl, you have tools only us newbies can dream about. Your the Bomb! I love your videos!!! Mandy
The fence caddy is simple and brilliant. I’ll have to build one, and have a new location for all the marking, measuring and junk I stored on my fence.
Not to be a troll but.... saw stop isn't the only saw with that technology. I really love your videos keep them coming.
Actually Bosch is not selling their Reaxx model anymore due to patent infringement. There are a few still available but the overwhelming consensus is Sawstop has better flesh detecting technology with fewer false activations combined with pro quality that matches any standard shop saw.
i like the results! just made something similar to your design. only significant difference in design is instead of the sliding dovetail bottom, i just glued on a sacrificial piece. i decided to save effort now and in the future, won't have to dovetail replacements. just slice the old one off on the saw and glue a new scrap on. i have a another one i made once that i really like, an even wider base of 4", and it's pretty beat up. i may make one based on your design by gluing extra slabs on the sides below the handle cutout.
Have you thought about dovetailing the adjustable stop with an over hang at the top so it wont slide out but it will still adjust without a bolt or anything it just adjust as you set it on the saw table ...I'm gonna build one tomorrow and see how it works .
Love the idea of the tray on saw fence. Very clever and keeps things in their place. In my workflow, I don't like things on top of the fence as I often cut taller things (boxes) where that might get in the way. I need to think how I might be able to adapt this idea. Thanks for the great videos.
great idea with adjustable end stop. what are the measurements of your push-stick? im interested in the height and the distance bestween your hand pushing it and the blade. thanks
You really put a lot of thought into this push stick April. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Scott
April, I love it, good job. It is a brilliant idea to have the sacrificial material on the bottom & done with a dove tail looks great, too. Great of him to show you.
The caddy is genius April...love the design and the push stick....going to make one of each for my shop
'Slide-cutting' cutting sound effects for the win!! 🤛Loved the vid!
Glad you enjoyed it. :) Thanks for watching.
Love the 216 shirt you’re wearing in the talking head shots! I live in Cleveland so super cool to see! Just picked up all the materials I need to build your Miter Saw stand, can’t wait to get it built and save some space in my 1 car garage shop!
Ditto. I was like why does she have that shirt on? She's a Texas girl, no?
Did adding the sliding dove tail piece throw off the adjustable stop, did you cut down the push stick to account for the extra height at the bottom, or make a new adjustable stop? Great stuff, thanks.
I like fancy push sticks. Nice tools are a pleasure to use, and often rewarding in terms of quality and accuracy!
I was just about to make some push sticks when I saw your video! Really cool. Also the caddy is a great idea. Very convenient! Great video. Very safe ideas!
Nice job. Great communication skills. Nice to see that you went above and beyond because you were enjoying yourself so much.
"But wait....there's more!" The Ronco Rotisserie Grill! The greatest grill EVER!! The push stick is pretty cool too!
Great project! Love the R&D with this project... and the caddy was the cherry on the top! Good call with the plastic "hardware".
Thanks for another awesome video!
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Great idea. I think I'll do a version with the sacrificial foot glued to the body; easy to trim off at the table saw once used enough. I'm also thinking T-track on the adjustable foot idea (I have some small sections kicking about). Thanks!
I love the woodwork you do, learn way you make woodwork projects.that push stick is very nice. Australia.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Love this! Similar to the ones I was taught to use but a little next level. The long plastic push sticks you often see are sketchy!
Now I’m wondering if you see any benefits to the long one that you use on plywood at the end?
Why would the back part need to extend down so far anyways? Doesn't it just help it move forward couldn't something as small as 1/8 of a lip accomplish that? That could do thick and thin stock.
Awesome push stick... and, thank you for not using a CNC to just cut it out!
Totally agree! It's frustrating when you see a tutorial and they start using CNC, laser cutter, etc.
Hi April. I met you at MC19 thus year but i was abit nervous and starstruck.
i love your work and the way there presented in your videos.
Think il be making.one of these push sticks next week when the kids go bacl to school.
*One* April-Wilkerson-video a day will save my day.
Once again a great build. And I love the fact that you don’t edit out the mistakes.😉
It's part of the design process. : ) Not really mistakes.
I like seeing the different iterations, the last one had a lot of great features to it
The sound effects at the end are priceless :)
Thank goodness, theirs no limit to how much fun one can have/create. Thanks for sharing your fun.
I love your solution! Simple and Efficient!
Simplicity is complicated! But this Push Stick is very cool I will do here in Brazil, similar yours. Thx for the video.
: ) Glad you like it!
Loving the 216 shirt. Go Cleveland
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Hello, good job! However, I am not sure whether it is easier to make several push sticks with different height tails ( such as 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4) or make one like yours with adjustable tails.
I will probably try to make several with your first push stick design. Thanks!
Good idea, I also liked all the sound effects of everyone of your push-sticks starting at 8:30, lol.
Great push stick, but the pencil tray is pure genius! I'm always setting things down only for them never to be seen again...
I know your pushstick is based on Jay's design, but do you still have the Sketchup plans for your version? I love the elegant shape of it and the combined slot for your fingers. I think it would allow for me to shift force as i push wood through the cut and it gets further away
It is like you were born for this. Really great.
Aw thank you. I love doing projects and making videos so that's great to hear.
Hi April,
Beautiful description of the prototypes, and of course also the final product.
Also very interesting is the "push-stick box", really convenient to avoid looking for them throughout the workshop, only in some construction saws you have the place to put the "pusher" (not the Breaking Bad kind pusher, of course :-) ) when you don't uses.
to the next videos
Ciao!
: ) I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you
Did not realize you were a pusher. LOL Great video. Thank you for sharing April. Love and God Bless.
Bosch also has their Reaxx system now too on contractor saws. Similar to Saw Stop, but you don't destroy the saw blade in the process.
They were actually taken to court over their system and was found to be infringing on SawStop's patent. They are not currently selling the saw.
@@AprilWilkerson You are correct, I just noticed that. Read through a few of the lawyer commentaries and while Saw Stop may be in the legal right, I definitely can't argue they're in the moral right. It's hard to side with a company who says they put safety first just to turn around and have them sue the only real competition (who arguably have a better mechanism than just chucking a hunk of aluminum into a spinning blade). That's corporate greed, pure and simple.
3:08 isn't that dangerous running the piece between the outer bit and the fence? Seems that the bit would want to pull the piece through and throw it across the shop? Or is this a router that rotates both ways?
April, this is Excellent. Informative, punchy and clear. Great work!
April, why do you feel the need to have any more then a 1/8 inch tail piece? Wouldn't 1/8 inch catch anything beyond 1/8 in just as well and you wouldn't need to take the time to adjust it every time?
Ken Porter I agree.
Pushing a thicker workpiece through the saw takes more force than 1/8" and I would personally want to have as much of the tail piece registering as possible, for leverage, to avoid slipping, etc. 1/8" isn't much. Your point is valid tho.
That's exactly how I made mine
Are you thinking 1/4 inch tail stock something sturdier?
@@OutoftheWoodwork while the observation about needing or wanting more than an 1/8" of solid wood to catch and push the workpiece through the saw may be true, it is totally negated by the loose fitting nylon bolt glued in with wood glue. I would think that a 1/8" or 3/16" solid wood lip would provide much more resistance to breaking than the nylon nut setup. At least in my experience it has.
Awesome push stick April. It’s so pretty I wouldn’t want to use it though lol. I love the idea of the replaceable sacrificial foot as well as the tail. I definitely plan on building the caddy though because my push sticks are always falling off of the notch in my fence. I have tried several ways of having them where they would be quick and easy to grab but yours certainly top anything that I’ve tried.
Hi April,
Great fun... and a wee bit OTT? Anyway I love your suggestion to attach a caddy to the fence to keep the essentials at hand.
I also like the idea to make a sacrificial bottom to the push stick.
Thnx,
Willem
Great idea with the adjustable tail piece. Just need to give a warning on the routing you do at around 3.03. Never trap the work piece between the cutter and the fence. Small problem is that any deviation from the fence and the cut will be spoiled. Large problem is that you end up with a trapped climb cut and the bit can easily dig into the wood and throw it forward at a speed impossible to control.
I dont even need to watch this just reading the title my mind is blown. Good stuff
I will probably use the organizer idea, the push stick is a little over the top for me at this stage. Really cool, just more work that I need to commit to a push at this point.
Kind of a dangerous cut on the router table at 3:03 and 3:09. Doing a climb cut and sandwiching the workpiece between the bit and the fence are both no-nos on the router table.
Yes, and when she pushed the block through the router table at 2:16 I cringed! I think a dado blade and tenoning jig (or some other jig on the fence) on a tablesaw would have been much safer!
Wonderful idea. I got one if you don't mind I share here... Instead of using threaded bolts with a wingnut I realised you could use some coil to adjust automatically every time by just pushing down the stick until it touches the piece of material you gonna run through the blade... 8-)
looking forward to see whats next April !
Love the sound effects! Thanks you're a blast to watch. Keep up the good work, sorry, can't be work having that much fun..
: ) Glad you enjoy my style.
Молодчинка!!! Даже при наличии стольких станков не перестаёт соображать голова!!!
Fantastic video as always. Just curious how and where did you cut yourself... I couldn't help but notice the blood on your hands. Thank you for the free plans.
It was red paint. :) Thanks for watching.
The added dovetailed base is a great idea. Was it a tapered sliding dovetail or just a standard one?
Wonderful video in all aspects. Maybe another thing to try with your push stick is to spring load the tailstock piece. It would self adjust every time with no setup at all.
Just a thought ... anyway, I love your approach, improvements and efforts to make it not only look good, but work good so well. Cheers!!
First of all you have amazing videos, which for me, are just right for my level of woodworking. Second, I love the large footprint of the push-stick and I'll definitely be making the fence caddy for my SawStop as well. So with that, a thought; how about making the push-stick tail floating instead of fixed so it can just slide up out of the way when not needed but then drop down over the end of the stock when it is needed? That way it's always the right height/thickness for whatever stock you're cutting.
Great idea.Even though it's a simple project , April i see you added the wilkerson touch nice edges.
: ) Thank you
💓 from the CLE, thx for the informative video and rocking the 216 gear. Glad I was introduced to your great channel from Matt C's mill build with you.
Came here to see the push stick, really loved the caddy!
Love the belt sander that can be flipped. I have a very old and HEAVY Makita belt that I built a carriage so I could do the same thing. Works great. The sander still works great for as old as it is so I'll keep using it. Just wondering why you're wearing a 216 area code t-shirt... Cleveland, Ohio? I'm sure there's a story behind that, LOL.
I like it a lot. I think I will try to drill and tap a hole for the plastic threads rather than using glue. Love the sliding dovetail idea.
Fantastic ideas and development stages to achieve a stick that works well within your workshop
that's awesome to see someone with a Saw Stop. i saw that tech years ago and thought that is so awesome! have you ever had it accidentally activate with especially wet wood?
Great ideas! My two cents on a pencil rolling. No it’s not a carpenter pencil either. I love these pencils, triangle in shape. Has a rubber type coating. Dixon Tri-Conderoga. Once you try one you won’t use your old pencil.
I'm curious about something you said at around the 6:00 mark about setting the correct blade height. I was always taught that the blade is at the correct height when the entire gullet between the two highest teeth (plus a couple of millimetres on top of that) is fully visible above the workpiece. This allows the dust between the teeth to clear properly and also lets the blade cool, thereby reducing burning on the cut edge. When you set what you described as your "correct height", you barely had the cutting edge of the teeth above the workpiece; the gullet was down inside the cut.
I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong, I'm just really curious as to how others set the correct cutting height on their blade, simply because that bit of advice I was given has always stuck with me but - for some reason - it doesn't seem to be known to many of youtube's most famous table saw users (or if it is, it's not heeded). Love the push stick by the way!
Simple project, but I like the prototyping and problem solving aspect of it :)