LRC_Woodworking

I also have been using this method for years, only if I have but a few tendons to do. The editors at FW are concerned about the safety, as they should be, of this method, yet there have been articles in the recent past that make me shutter. A good example of this is from FW #212, "Standing Frame Has Two Faces", in one of the pictures a bevel is being ripped on a narrow piece of wood and the fingers that are pushing the wood past the blade are dangerously close to the blade, a push stick should have been used. We as woodworkers need to exercise self-awareness when it comes to our own safety. If we feel that a procedure is unsafe then we need to back off and reevaluate, proceeding only when we feel safe in doing so. Some of the examples given in FW, I have not felt comfortable with, even though others might, therefore I choose a different method to accomplish the same thing, even thought it might take more time. I can still count all ten complete digits on my hands after 40+ years.