Make Your Own Push Stick For The Ultimate In Table Saw Safety

Make Your Own Push Stick For The Ultimate In Table Saw Safety

Push sticks are a must for table saw safety. They keep your hands and fingers off the wood to be cut, and away from the spinning blade. You can make your own push stick that will hold your material in place and perform better than any store-bought one.

Table saws are truly one of the most dangerous tools in any workshop. Each year 67,000 workers and DIYers are injured using table saws. Using a push stick is one of the best ways to prevent those injuries.

Standard push sticks only maintain a small amount of contact with the wood and virtually no downward pressure. Mitering (cutting the corners at an angle) on a piece of 2×6 and installing a catch at the back of it, creates an easy to use push stick that you’ll reach for often. Check out the video above to see how to do it.

The best push stick ever [Jay Bates (YouTube)]


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

Here are the cheapest plans available for Australia’s most popular NBN speed tier.

At Lifehacker, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.

Comments


2 responses to “Make Your Own Push Stick For The Ultimate In Table Saw Safety”

Leave a Reply