• How Close Do You Get To Your Miter Saw Blade?

    From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 10:09:56 2022
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 13:49:34 2022
    On 8/17/2022 12:09 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    Several inches away. Normally.

    Last Saturday I was helping a friend/relative, what ever yu call my
    daughter in law's cousin, put down base boards in 5 rooms, populated
    with furniture. Still have 3 bedrooms and closets, and a bathroom to go.

    Anyway we were trying to use the waste pieces to keep the waste down.
    I was cutting 2" long pieces with bevel cuts on both ends off 6" pieces.
    The base boards were about 8" tall so all cuts were bevel vs miter.

    I think I was getting pretty close to the blade on some of those pieces.
    ;~0

    It would have been far smarter to have worked with nothing shorter than 12".

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  • From pyotr filipivich@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 18:50:06 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> on Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700
    (PDT) typed in rec.woodworking the following:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    As I do not have a power saw - a lot closer than I would otherwise
    ... B-)

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Wed Aug 17 21:20:01 2022
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

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  • From Markem618@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Wed Aug 17 22:46:02 2022
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 21:19:58 2022
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Wed Aug 17 21:22:40 2022
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 03:14:05 2022
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 1:09:58 PM UTC-4, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    It's sort of like the people that drop to 15mph below the speed limit when they see a cop.
    You don't get bonus points for being below the limit.
    As long as my hand isn't in the path of the blade it's not getting cut.
    The important thing (for me) is to be sure I'm not moving my holding hand as I'm lowering the blade, especially when I'm doing a bunch of repetitive cuts. The little shorties where I'm sure (some) people would freak out of they saw it always have my
    full attention anyways.
    YMMV.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 18 13:10:50 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

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  • From Markem618@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 18 09:17:34 2022
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:19:58 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    Not on the miter saw.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 11:12:49 2022
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:10:50 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

    By Bosch has a clamp, too, but it's as close to useless as it could be
    made.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu Aug 18 07:37:33 2022
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 9:10:55 AM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

    As far as I know, all miter saws come with that accessory.

    On my Delta 36-220, it mounts in the front, which is a terrible design.

    The rear mounted one on my Bosch Glide saw only gets within 5 1/2"
    of the blade. That's often too far away for some of my cuts. I use it
    mainly for stop blocks.

    The Delta clamp, which holds the board against the fence, not down on
    the table, requires that the board be at least 6" long if I recall correctly. Again, that's too long in many cases. OK for stop blocks.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 18 11:11:39 2022
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 18 15:28:02 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> writes:
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 9:10:55 AM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

    As far as I know, all miter saws come with that accessory.

    On my Delta 36-220, it mounts in the front, which is a terrible design.

    The rear mounted one on my Bosch Glide saw only gets within 5 1/2"
    of the blade. That's often too far away for some of my cuts. I use it
    mainly for stop blocks.

    The Delta clamp, which holds the board against the fence, not down on
    the table, requires that the board be at least 6" long if I recall correctly. >Again, that's too long in many cases. OK for stop blocks.

    Yes, 6". Anything shorter and I use a backsaw or the bandsaw with a miter gauge.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu Aug 18 10:45:49 2022
    On 8/18/2022 8:10 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.


    Ohhhhh my Kapex has an EXCELLENT hold down and switches from side to
    side with no knobs to twist.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 10:48:39 2022
    On 8/18/2022 9:37 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 9:10:55 AM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

    As far as I know, all miter saws come with that accessory.

    If you can call it that. Some are much more trouble than helpful.

    The Kapex is so simple and elegant that it is like the difference in
    changing blades in the old Bosch jigsaws to a current Bosch jig saw.




    On my Delta 36-220, it mounts in the front, which is a terrible design.

    The rear mounted one on my Bosch Glide saw only gets within 5 1/2"
    of the blade. That's often too far away for some of my cuts. I use it
    mainly for stop blocks.

    The Delta clamp, which holds the board against the fence, not down on
    the table, requires that the board be at least 6" long if I recall correctly. Again, that's too long in many cases. OK for stop blocks.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Leon on Thu Aug 18 09:11:09 2022
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:48:49 AM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 9:37 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 9:10:55 AM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.

    As far as I know, all miter saws come with that accessory.
    If you can call it that. Some are much more trouble than helpful.

    Like the difference between the old Delta and the new Bosch.


    The Kapex is so simple and elegant that it is like the difference in
    changing blades in the old Bosch jigsaws to a current Bosch jig saw.

    Assuming the JS470E is current enough, I know what you mean.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Thu Aug 18 10:57:18 2022
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:12:54 AM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:10:50 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.
    By Bosch has a clamp, too, but it's as close to useless as it could be
    made.

    What model Bosch?

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 18 16:22:35 2022
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:12:54 AM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:10:50 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.
    By Bosch has a clamp, too, but it's as close to useless as it could be
    made.

    What model Bosch?

    5412, I think. One with the rails towards the back, not the scissors
    arm one.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Thu Aug 18 14:26:03 2022
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 4:22:40 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:12:54 AM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:10:50 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.
    By Bosch has a clamp, too, but it's as close to useless as it could be
    made.

    What model Bosch?
    5412, I think. One with the rails towards the back, not the scissors
    arm one.

    That's a pretty strange looking clamp. WTF were they thinking?

    The one on my Bosch Glide saw ("scissors" as you call it) is as simple as it gets. What
    more do you need?

    https://media.repairtoolparts.com/image/Bosch/1609B02315.jpg

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to krw@notreal.com on Thu Aug 18 20:28:06 2022
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.

    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be enough--but it wasn't. ; )

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to Bill on Thu Aug 18 22:07:36 2022
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:28:06 -0400, Bill <nonegiven@att.net> wrote:

    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.

    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be >enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    Yeah, I've been bitten by a drill press more often than all other
    tools combined. It looks like such an innocuous tool until the bit
    catches, which it always does if the piece isn't anchored. Some bits
    are better than others.

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to krw@notreal.com on Thu Aug 18 23:07:41 2022
    On 8/18/2022 10:07 PM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:28:06 -0400, Bill <nonegiven@att.net> wrote:

    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>> while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.

    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be
    enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    Yeah, I've been bitten by a drill press more often than all other
    tools combined. It looks like such an innocuous tool until the bit
    catches, which it always does if the piece isn't anchored. Some bits
    are better than others.

    Good point. The bit I was using was big relative to the size of the
    work and I didn't take that into consideration.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Bill on Thu Aug 18 21:38:47 2022
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:28:12 PM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.
    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 01:49:19 2022
    On 8/19/2022 12:38 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:28:12 PM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>> while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.
    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be
    enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A

    That is a nice solution; just what is needed!

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  • From Puckdropper@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Fri Aug 19 05:56:27 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote in news:b5069862-4f86-446b-b467-027ebba65661n@googlegroups.com:


    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A


    I like that table design! Mine has the standard ring with the radial slots
    to hold a drill press vise that apparently no one has ever tried to mount
    to it.

    That's going to have to go on my project list. Someone really thought
    about what drill presses really need there!

    Puckdropper

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  • From Puckdropper@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Fri Aug 19 05:43:45 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote in news:e612be32-660f-4c4c-99b7- 9fd396cd2fc1n@googlegroups.com:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    I'd say a few inches, maybe 3-4? It's been a while since I've really
    looked at the distance. One thing it's easy to do is to allow my thumb to point out away from my hand so I'm always paying attention to where it is.

    The clamp on my CMS wasn't that great, so I'm usually the clamp. I'm not
    sure if I even know where it is.

    Puckdropper

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 07:58:57 2022
    On 8/18/2022 4:26 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 4:22:40 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:12:54 AM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:10:50 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?

    My first miter saw (Delta) had a nice clamp attachment to hold
    the board which could be switched to either side.
    By Bosch has a clamp, too, but it's as close to useless as it could be >>>> made.

    What model Bosch?
    5412, I think. One with the rails towards the back, not the scissors
    arm one.

    That's a pretty strange looking clamp. WTF were they thinking?

    The one on my Bosch Glide saw ("scissors" as you call it) is as simple as it gets. What
    more do you need?

    https://media.repairtoolparts.com/image/Bosch/1609B02315.jpg


    This is simple. Push the plunger down to the work, then turn the lever
    1/4 turn to apply pressure. Reverse to unlock.

    To move from one side to the other, rotate the clamp 180 degrees and lift.

    https://www.hartvillehardware.com/product/sku-42522?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Google+Shopping&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw6fyXBhBgEiwAhhiZsssOqHYYZojT51m9LrgYKg2MiKWINwBTcNrB5x7acZCw28Fma7GCdhoCBDcQAvD_BwE

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Puckdropper on Fri Aug 19 07:08:38 2022
    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 1:56:33 AM UTC-4, Puckdropper wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> wrote in news:b5069862-4f86-446b...@googlegroups.com:

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A

    I like that table design! Mine has the standard ring with the radial slots
    to hold a drill press vise that apparently no one has ever tried to mount
    to it.

    That's going to have to go on my project list. Someone really thought
    about what drill presses really need there!

    Puckdropper

    My DIY drill press table is probably twice that size. I forget where I got it, but
    I had an old cabinet door (I think), 3/4" veneered plywood. Smooth & flat. I added 3 T-tracks and a recess for 3" x 3" inserts under the bit. I can change them out when they get beat up. The fence uses the same T-tracks as the hold downs.

    The table is bolted to the small square metal table that came with the drill press,
    which is what rides on the pole.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Fri Aug 19 17:35:30 2022
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:38:47 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:28:12 PM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.
    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be
    enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A

    I've found that this slight variation works a lot better. The bearing
    under the knob makes operation a lot smoother. There are several
    brands of these around. I have an Incra clamp that works like this.

    https://masscaproducts.com/collections/viking-arm-clamps/products/massca-hold-down-clamps

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 17:39:03 2022
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:56:27 GMT, Puckdropper <puckdropper@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote in >news:b5069862-4f86-446b-b467-027ebba65661n@googlegroups.com:


    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A


    I like that table design! Mine has the standard ring with the radial slots >to hold a drill press vise that apparently no one has ever tried to mount
    to it.

    That's going to have to go on my project list. Someone really thought
    about what drill presses really need there!

    Woodpeckers thought about it too and came up with a really nice table.

    https://www.woodpeck.com/dp-pro-drill-press-table.html

    The price isn't so great though. I'm going to steal the base and
    drawer under the table.


    Puckdropper

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  • From Bob Davis@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Fri Aug 19 16:34:53 2022
    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 4:39:08 PM UTC-5, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:56:27 GMT, Puckdropper <puckd...@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> wrote in >news:b5069862-4f86-446b...@googlegroups.com:


    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A


    I like that table design! Mine has the standard ring with the radial slots >to hold a drill press vise that apparently no one has ever tried to mount >to it.

    That's going to have to go on my project list. Someone really thought >about what drill presses really need there!
    Woodpeckers thought about it too and came up with a really nice table.

    https://www.woodpeck.com/dp-pro-drill-press-table.html

    The price isn't so great though. I'm going to steal the base and
    drawer under the table.


    Puckdropper
    Its pretty. I think the dust collection in the fence is wrong. Drill press dust collection is one of the most variable and difficult dust collection tasks. Fence based collection rarely works well. I finally landed on always using hold down clamps
    and a handheld vacuum nozzle placed where dust collection is optimized for each unique configuration. I also had the woodpecker hold down clamps which worked well but took way too nuch setup time. I gave them away. My current favorite solution is a
    pair of these Kreg clamps. They are fast set up and always work, if your track configuration is robust.

    https://www.kregtool.com/shop/clamping/clamps/6-bench-clamp/KBC6.html

    Bob

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Fri Aug 19 17:24:16 2022
    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 5:35:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:38:47 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:28:12 PM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.
    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp.
    I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be
    enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A
    I've found that this slight variation works a lot better. The bearing
    under the knob makes operation a lot smoother. There are several
    brands of these around. I have an Incra clamp that works like this.

    https://masscaproducts.com/collections/viking-arm-clamps/products/massca-hold-down-clamps

    That set is missing one key feature that my pair has: Free-ness.

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  • From ritzannaseaton@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 23:03:38 2022
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary and
    fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to russellseaton1@yahoo.com on Sat Aug 20 10:21:40 2022
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 2:03:41 AM UTC-4, russellseaton1@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    You can only position your hand 6” away if the board you are
    cutting is at least 6” long.


    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary and
    fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.

    Even at 2” or less away, everything can still be stationary and
    held in place. It’s not the like blade is going to alter it’s fixed path.

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 20 18:02:14 2022
    On 8/20/2022 1:21 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 2:03:41 AM UTC-4, russellseaton1@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    You can only position your hand 6” away if the board you are
    cutting is at least 6” long.


    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary and
    fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.

    Even at 2” or less away, everything can still be stationary and
    held in place. It’s not the like blade is going to alter it’s fixed path.

    I worry, perhaps needlessly, about the blade tugging the work into the
    blade. That's why I make sure my left hand is more tightly affixed to something else than it is to the work, when working close to the blade
    like that. My experience, is not so much though, and that surely that
    is related to my (unnecessary?) caution.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Sat Aug 20 20:12:48 2022
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:24:16 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 5:35:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:38:47 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:28:12 PM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 11:11 AM, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 9:20:05 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >> >> >>>> while making a cut?
    Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward.

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow the fingers of
    the hand holding the board to get while making a cut.

    A foot. I don't think I've cut anything less. Any smaller and I use
    the table saw.
    If I have the least bit of hesitation, I don't hesitate to use a clamp. >> >> I should have even followed that advise when I last used my drill
    press...I thought, I got the work held against a fence, that should be
    enough--but it wasn't. ; )

    I made a pair of these from some aluminum stock that I had
    lying around. They live in the T tracks of my drill press table,
    always at the ready.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/xTU75zJ616PpjKd6A
    I've found that this slight variation works a lot better. The bearing
    under the knob makes operation a lot smoother. There are several
    brands of these around. I have an Incra clamp that works like this.

    https://masscaproducts.com/collections/viking-arm-clamps/products/massca-hold-down-clamps

    That set is missing one key feature that my pair has: Free-ness.

    Free is good.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to ritzannaseaton@gmail.com on Sat Aug 20 20:16:07 2022
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russellseaton1@yahoo.com" <ritzannaseaton@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the
    wood down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.

    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Sat Aug 20 18:39:19 2022
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com" <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary and
    fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the
    blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the
    room. End of video.

    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." "Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"

    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101"

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Sat Aug 20 22:42:05 2022
    On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:39:19 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com"
    <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the
    blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the
    room. End of video.

    Kinda like using both a miter gauge and a fence on a table saw.

    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." >"Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"

    I'd have responded with "Wow", too, but with different wording.

    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101"

    They do have a brake so it doesn't take more than a few seconds to
    wind down.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Sat Aug 20 20:12:57 2022
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 10:42:09 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:39:19 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com"
    <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the
    wood down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the >blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the >room. End of video.
    Kinda like using both a miter gauge and a fence on a table saw.

    If you mean "completely safe if done correctly" then I agree that it's
    "kinda like" that.

    On a miter saw it's safe to use a stop block in that manner as long
    as you let the blade stop.

    On a table saw it's safe to use the miter gauge and fence if you use
    a spacer black on the fence.



    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." >"Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"
    I'd have responded with "Wow", too, but with different wording.
    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101" They do have a brake so it doesn't take more than a few seconds to
    wind down.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Sun Aug 21 15:33:26 2022
    On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 10:42:09 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:39:19 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com"
    <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the
    wood down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the
    blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the
    room. End of video.
    Kinda like using both a miter gauge and a fence on a table saw.

    If you mean "completely safe if done correctly" then I agree that it's
    "kinda like" that.

    On a miter saw it's safe to use a stop block in that manner as long
    as you let the blade stop

    I let the blade wind down for ANY cut. It only takes a couple of
    seconds.

    On a table saw it's safe to use the miter gauge and fence if you use
    a spacer black on the fence.

    As long as the rear of the spacer is in front of the blade.



    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." >> >"Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"
    I'd have responded with "Wow", too, but with different wording.
    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101" >> They do have a brake so it doesn't take more than a few seconds to
    wind down.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 21 18:22:49 2022
    On 8/20/2022 8:39 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com"
    <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the wood
    down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the
    blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the
    room. End of video.

    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." "Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"

    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101"

    Your comment is what Festool, and I am sure others too, says.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to krw@notreal.com on Sun Aug 21 18:25:00 2022
    On 8/20/2022 9:42 PM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:39:19 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:16:27 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "russell...@yahoo.com"
    <ritzann...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote: >>>>> Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    5-6 inches roughly. A miter saw, sliding or fixed, has a stationary piece of wood. Unlike with a table saw. So you can easily clamp the wood down before the cut. Or more likely position your clamping hand 6 inches away from the blade to hold the
    wood down. Your hands don't ever move. So you should be able to put them in the right place, 6 inches or so away, and then make the cut.

    I do not know if more people are injured with miter saws or table saws. But in theory anyway, a miter saw should be safer because the wood is not moving. Your hands are not moving or guiding the wood into the blade. Everything should be stationary
    and fixed in place before the blade starts spinning.
    No kickback with miter saws either. Kickback sucking the fingers into
    the blade always concerns me.

    I came across a youtube where some guy was trying to prove how
    dangerous a miter saw is. One of those "why this tool can kill you,
    you better stop now, never use it again" videos. The thing is, all he
    did was show the problem but never offered the solution. (I can't
    find it right now, otherwise I'd post the link)

    What he did was clamp a stop block just a few inches from the blade.
    Then he slid a board up to the block, cut the board and then - with the
    blade still spinning - lifted the saw head. The cut off shot across the
    room. End of video.

    Kinda like using both a miter gauge and a fence on a table saw.

    Well in some instances you don't want to do that, miter gauge and rip
    fence, but I cut rabbets this way. No problem at all since this is not
    a through cut operation.




    People were commenting things like "Holy sh*t! Thank you for showing this." >> "Wow, miter saws are really dangerous." "Great video! Thanks!"

    I'd have responded with "Wow", too, but with different wording.

    I added my own comment:

    "Let the blade stop before lifting it out of the workpiece. Miter Saw 101"

    They do have a brake so it doesn't take more than a few seconds to
    wind down.

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to Jay Pique on Tue Aug 23 11:31:24 2022
    On 8/18/2022 6:14 AM, Jay Pique wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 1:09:58 PM UTC-4, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?

    It's sort of like the people that drop to 15mph below the speed limit when they see a cop.
    You don't get bonus points for being below the limit.
    As long as my hand isn't in the path of the blade it's not getting cut.
    The important thing (for me) is to be sure I'm not moving my holding hand as I'm lowering the blade, especially when I'm doing a bunch of repetitive cuts. The little shorties where I'm sure (some) people would freak out of they saw it always have my
    full attention anyways.
    YMMV.
    While not specifically related to miter saws, check out Frick'n Jeep at
    his saw mill:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_WmxYDPuE
    go to 14:50 on the time line then drop him a note on
    how stupid he is for doing this for the past 30 years. He's still in his
    early 70's so when he gets a little older he might be wise to use a
    stick more often.

    --
    Jack
    Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Ed Pawlowski on Wed Aug 24 20:12:57 2022
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's length away?

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  • From Ed Pawlowski@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 24 22:45:37 2022
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?


    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it. Never
    measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

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  • From Markem618@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Wed Aug 24 23:38:06 2022
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >length away?

    Jammed finger if something goes awry? Being tired and in a hurry is
    not recommend though, that my story I have all my fingers though, skin
    lucky grows back.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 01:20:21 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 12:38:12 AM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >length away?
    Jammed finger if something goes awry?

    What do you mean by “jammed fingers” and what could go
    “awry” to cause that?

    I’m looking for a specific situation, similar to how you would
    explain kickback on a table saw. “The board does _this_ causing
    your hand to do _this_.”

    What could happen with the wood and blade to cause an injury
    while holding it at 2” that wouldn’t happen while holding it at 6”
    or 12”? (I am, of course, assuming that the user is fully aware
    of the placement of all fingers, e.g. the thumb or any other finger
    is not in the path of the blade.)

    Being tired and in a hurry is
    not recommend though, that my story I have all my fingers though, skin
    lucky grows back.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 25 12:56:42 2022
    DerbyDad03 <teamarrows@eznet.net> writes:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    I've seen a blade _pull_ a board towards the blade when the board isn't perfectly flat and square or if it hits a buried knot.

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  • From Ed Pawlowski@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 09:33:17 2022
    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to Ed Pawlowski on Thu Aug 25 10:04:54 2022
    On 8/25/2022 8:33 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's
    length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.



    Yes! but theory is what should happen. Case hardened wood, warped
    wood, what ever the issue, the wood can move slightly and cause all
    kinds of havoc if the piece is short and mostly NOT supported by the
    back fence.


    Most miter saw fences have something like a 2" gap between the left and
    right fence. So if the piece is 2" wide only half of the piece is
    being supported by the end of the fence on either side. The piece can
    easily pivot on the end of the fence and get thrown by the blade.

    A few weeks ago I was cutting base board moldings. In some cases the
    piece needed was mitered on one end and square cut on the opposite and
    they were 1.5" long.
    This was a dangerous cut and I stood clear of the where that piece would
    fly back should it pivot against the end of the fence. It happened
    twice. Ideally this should have been done a TS but I was not at the shop.

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 09:54:07 2022
    On 8/25/2022 3:20 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 12:38:12 AM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >>>> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >>> a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >>> length away?
    Jammed finger if something goes awry?

    What do you mean by “jammed fingers” and what could go
    “awry” to cause that?


    The work coming back against your hand or finger and jamming the finger
    joint.

    If the blade caught the piece you are holding and bangs it into the back
    fence and then back toward your hand/finger.





    I’m looking for a specific situation, similar to how you would
    explain kickback on a table saw. “The board does _this_ causing
    your hand to do _this_.”

    What could happen with the wood and blade to cause an injury
    while holding it at 2” that wouldn’t happen while holding it at 6”
    or 12”? (I am, of course, assuming that the user is fully aware
    of the placement of all fingers, e.g. the thumb or any other finger
    is not in the path of the blade.)

    With a 2" long piece you do not have as much leverage and or holding
    force to keep the piece flat against the fence as with a 4" long piece.




    When in doubt, with the saw blade up and away try a 2" long piece and a
    4" long piece against the fence. Notice the more of the 4 inch piece is against the fence and less likely to pivot at the fence opening than the
    2" long piece.

    Also think about cutting a 4 foot long piece in half. Now cutting 2"
    off of the end of that piece. It happens with regularity that the
    shorter cut off pieces twist, jam, and get thrown by the blade.


    And the narrower the stock the more likely to jam.






    Being tired and in a hurry is
    not recommend though, that my story I have all my fingers though, skin
    lucky grows back.

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to Leon on Thu Aug 25 11:34:33 2022
    On 8/25/2022 10:54 AM, Leon wrote:

    What do you mean by “jammed fingers” and what could go
    “awry” to cause that?


    The work coming back against your hand or finger and jamming the finger joint.

    I had a piece of wood snapped away ("forward") from me once,
    so I will validate that it can happen. It was a gentle reminder
    that the work should be pushed all the way forward before you cut! : )

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to Bill on Thu Aug 25 11:16:21 2022
    On 8/25/2022 10:34 AM, Bill wrote:
    On 8/25/2022 10:54 AM, Leon wrote:

    What do you mean by “jammed fingers” and what could go
    “awry” to cause that?


    The work coming back against your hand or finger and jamming the
    finger joint.

    I had a piece of wood snapped away ("forward") from me once,
    so I will validate that it can happen.  It was a gentle reminder
    that the work should be pushed all the way forward before you cut! : )



    Well in my case if you do a LOT of woodworking something is going to
    happen at some time or another. And a lapse of judgement is the
    leading cause. Weekend before last I had issues with short pieces
    coming back at me but this has happened time and again in the past so I
    made sure that the saw motor was between me and the work.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to Ed Pawlowski on Thu Aug 25 14:39:33 2022
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:33:17 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's
    length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.

    In theory, reality and theory are the same. In reality, they aren't.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 25 14:36:06 2022
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    GO wrong? Stupid mistake. Not thinking. Distraction (and if you say
    that you're never distracted when your attitude about something is
    "What could go wrong?", well...

    As soon as you say "What could go wrong?" It will.

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >length away?

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Leon on Thu Aug 25 12:49:41 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 11:05:03 AM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
    On 8/25/2022 8:33 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >>> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >> a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >> length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.
    Yes! but theory is what should happen. Case hardened wood, warped
    wood, what ever the issue, the wood can move slightly and cause all
    kinds of havoc if the piece is short and mostly NOT supported by the
    back fence.


    Most miter saw fences have something like a 2" gap between the left and
    right fence. So if the piece is 2" wide only half of the piece is
    being supported by the end of the fence on either side. The piece can
    easily pivot on the end of the fence and get thrown by the blade.

    A few weeks ago I was cutting base board moldings. In some cases the
    piece needed was mitered on one end and square cut on the opposite and
    they were 1.5" long.
    This was a dangerous cut and I stood clear of the where that piece would
    fly back should it pivot against the end of the fence. It happened
    twice. Ideally this should have been done a TS but I was not at the shop.

    I agree with everything you've said here. I thought I addressed that issue
    a few days ago, but looking back I see that I did not mentioned it. I know
    that I thought about, because it makes a big difference in terms of my
    hand placement question:

    Both of my miter saws have zero clearance fences and zero clearance inserts.
    I wouldn't cut some of the small pieces that I do without the fence and insert backing up both sides as well as the bottom of the cut.

    On the other hand (PI), you are talking about a situation where the cutoff could
    be thrown, while I'm asking about hand placement on the board. In either case, a
    zero clearance fence makes a huge difference.

    (I was cutting some plugs in half on my bandsaw recently. I used blue painters tape to create a zero clearance "insert" around the blade so that the plug was fully
    supported by the table as it went through the blade.)

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Thu Aug 25 12:30:42 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 2:36:10 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?
    GO wrong? Stupid mistake. Not thinking. Distraction (and if you say
    that you're never distracted when your attitude about something is
    "What could go wrong?", well...

    What you read as an "attitude" was typed as a legitimate question.

    As far as being distracted, of course, that happens to all of us from time
    to time. But if I am doing something like making a "hazardous" cut (e.g. fingers close the blade) my concentration is centered on the cut.

    I'm going to take a guess here and assume that you do the same thing:
    "OK, pay attention. Where are my fingers, what is the wood going to do?
    What could go wrong?"

    I tend to follow the old adage of "If what you are about to do makes you uncomfortable, there is probably a reason." Stop, think about it and perhaps comes up with an alternative way to get the job done.


    As soon as you say "What could go wrong?" It will.

    Nope, because, at least for me, saying "What could go wrong?" is not
    the cavalier attitude that you took it to be. It's a legitimate question. An assessment of the situation. A chance to change what I'm going to do
    next, because I took the time to answer the question.

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.


    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >length away?

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 25 17:46:44 2022
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:30:42 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 2:36:10 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote:
    On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get
    while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?
    GO wrong? Stupid mistake. Not thinking. Distraction (and if you say
    that you're never distracted when your attitude about something is
    "What could go wrong?", well...

    What you read as an "attitude" was typed as a legitimate question.

    "What can go wrong?" attitude leads to complacency.

    As far as being distracted, of course, that happens to all of us from time
    to time. But if I am doing something like making a "hazardous" cut (e.g. >fingers close the blade) my concentration is centered on the cut.

    THe nonchalant "What can go wrong?" attitude makes it a whole lot
    worse. If you *expect* something to go wrong, distractions are a lot
    less likely.


    I'm going to take a guess here and assume that you do the same thing:
    "OK, pay attention. Where are my fingers, what is the wood going to do?
    What could go wrong?"

    The difference is that you're saying "What can go wrong?" as in "What,
    me worry?", vs my attitude of "what _could_ go wrong?" (there is a
    difference", or what happens _if_ something does go wrong". I don't
    want my hands anywhere near the blade if something *DOES* go wrong,
    even if that something could "never go wrong".

    I'm a conservative. Unintended consequences are inevitable.

    I tend to follow the old adage of "If what you are about to do makes you >uncomfortable, there is probably a reason." Stop, think about it and perhaps >comes up with an alternative way to get the job done.

    So that's why you put your fingers 2" from the blade? Putting your
    fingers right next to a spinning, moving, blade doesn't make you
    uncomfortable? It certainly does me. That's why they're a shoulder's
    width away.

    As soon as you say "What could go wrong?" It will.

    Nope, because, at least for me, saying "What could go wrong?" is not
    the cavalier attitude that you took it to be. It's a legitimate question. An >assessment of the situation. A chance to change what I'm going to do
    next, because I took the time to answer the question.

    Yet you put your fingers right next to a spinning, moving blade. Even
    parallax doesn't bother you.

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    But you don't think "What can go wrong, then lean 2' outside the
    ladder or use the top step anyway.

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would
    a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >> >length away?

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to JayPique@hotmail.com on Thu Aug 25 19:08:55 2022
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.

    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 15:23:31 2022
    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Thu Aug 25 16:28:22 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 5:46:49 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:30:42 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 2:36:10 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >> >> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >> >> >>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?
    GO wrong? Stupid mistake. Not thinking. Distraction (and if you say
    that you're never distracted when your attitude about something is
    "What could go wrong?", well...

    What you read as an "attitude" was typed as a legitimate question.
    "What can go wrong?" attitude leads to complacency.
    As far as being distracted, of course, that happens to all of us from time >to time. But if I am doing something like making a "hazardous" cut (e.g. >fingers close the blade) my concentration is centered on the cut.
    THe nonchalant "What can go wrong?" attitude makes it a whole lot
    worse. If you *expect* something to go wrong, distractions are a lot
    less likely.

    I'm going to take a guess here and assume that you do the same thing:
    "OK, pay attention. Where are my fingers, what is the wood going to do? >What could go wrong?"
    The difference is that you're saying "What can go wrong?" as in "What,
    me worry?", vs my attitude of "what _could_ go wrong?" (there is a difference", or what happens _if_ something does go wrong". I don't
    want my hands anywhere near the blade if something *DOES* go wrong,
    even if that something could "never go wrong".

    I'm a conservative. Unintended consequences are inevitable.

    I tend to follow the old adage of "If what you are about to do makes you >uncomfortable, there is probably a reason." Stop, think about it and perhaps >comes up with an alternative way to get the job done.
    So that's why you put your fingers 2" from the blade? Putting your
    fingers right next to a spinning, moving, blade doesn't make you uncomfortable? It certainly does me. That's why they're a shoulder's
    width away.
    As soon as you say "What could go wrong?" It will.

    Nope, because, at least for me, saying "What could go wrong?" is not
    the cavalier attitude that you took it to be. It's a legitimate question. An >assessment of the situation. A chance to change what I'm going to do
    next, because I took the time to answer the question.
    Yet you put your fingers right next to a spinning, moving blade. Even parallax doesn't bother you.
    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go >wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    But you don't think "What can go wrong, then lean 2' outside the
    ladder or use the top step anyway.
    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >> >a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >> >length away?

    It's like you never even read my post. If you did, then you certainly missed the
    point by about 1000 board feet.

    I said, right at the beginning, that you mistook my question for an attitude, yet
    you came right back with "What can go wrong?" attitude leads to complacency."

    Then you repeated your assumption, absolutely reversing what I specifically said.

    "The difference is that you're saying "What can go wrong?" as in "What,
    me worry?", vs my attitude of "what _could_ go wrong?""

    You are completely wrong with that assumption. I said it before and I just said it
    again - for the last time.

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Thu Aug 25 16:48:37 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to JayPique@hotmail.com on Thu Aug 25 20:32:10 2022
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?

    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Thu Aug 25 20:35:50 2022
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:28:22 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 5:46:49 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:30:42 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 2:36:10 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:12:57 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >> >> >> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >> >> >> >>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?
    GO wrong? Stupid mistake. Not thinking. Distraction (and if you say
    that you're never distracted when your attitude about something is
    "What could go wrong?", well...

    What you read as an "attitude" was typed as a legitimate question.
    "What can go wrong?" attitude leads to complacency.
    As far as being distracted, of course, that happens to all of us from time >> >to time. But if I am doing something like making a "hazardous" cut (e.g.
    fingers close the blade) my concentration is centered on the cut.
    THe nonchalant "What can go wrong?" attitude makes it a whole lot
    worse. If you *expect* something to go wrong, distractions are a lot
    less likely.

    I'm going to take a guess here and assume that you do the same thing:
    "OK, pay attention. Where are my fingers, what is the wood going to do?
    What could go wrong?"
    The difference is that you're saying "What can go wrong?" as in "What,
    me worry?", vs my attitude of "what _could_ go wrong?" (there is a
    difference", or what happens _if_ something does go wrong". I don't
    want my hands anywhere near the blade if something *DOES* go wrong,
    even if that something could "never go wrong".

    I'm a conservative. Unintended consequences are inevitable.

    I tend to follow the old adage of "If what you are about to do makes you
    uncomfortable, there is probably a reason." Stop, think about it and perhaps
    comes up with an alternative way to get the job done.
    So that's why you put your fingers 2" from the blade? Putting your
    fingers right next to a spinning, moving, blade doesn't make you
    uncomfortable? It certainly does me. That's why they're a shoulder's
    width away.
    As soon as you say "What could go wrong?" It will.

    Nope, because, at least for me, saying "What could go wrong?" is not
    the cavalier attitude that you took it to be. It's a legitimate question. An
    assessment of the situation. A chance to change what I'm going to do
    next, because I took the time to answer the question.
    Yet you put your fingers right next to a spinning, moving blade. Even
    parallax doesn't bother you.
    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    But you don't think "What can go wrong, then lean 2' outside the
    ladder or use the top step anyway.
    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >> >> >a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's
    length away?

    It's like you never even read my post. If you did, then you certainly missed the
    point by about 1000 board feet.

    No, 1000bf has no point. We're talking about the distance from
    fingers to blade.

    I said, right at the beginning, that you mistook my question for an attitude, yet
    you came right back with "What can go wrong?" attitude leads to complacency."

    It is a very ambiguous statement.

    Then you repeated your assumption, absolutely reversing what I specifically said.

    "The difference is that you're saying "What can go wrong?" as in "What,
    me worry?", vs my attitude of "what _could_ go wrong?""

    You can't always know what _could_ go wrong. I want as much margin as possible.

    You are completely wrong with that assumption. I said it before and I just said it
    again - for the last time.

    OK

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 26 01:06:51 2022
    On 8/25/2022 3:30 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    Someone formulated a rule (which can't restate exactly), but the gist of
    it is that the "set up" should be such that there are at least two
    mistakes in front of any major mishap, not just one.

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Fri Aug 26 04:01:51 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

    Actually you said, and I quote, "Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward."
    But we both know why you changed it.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to Bill on Fri Aug 26 09:36:04 2022
    On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:06:51 -0400, Bill <nonegiven@att.net> wrote:

    On 8/25/2022 3:30 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    Someone formulated a rule (which can't restate exactly), but the gist of
    it is that the "set up" should be such that there are at least two
    mistakes in front of any major mishap, not just one.

    And airplanes still fall out of the sky.

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Fri Aug 26 09:13:24 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was Ed.

    I *questioned* Ed's limit of 12", asking what he thought could wrong that
    set 12" as his limit.


    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

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  • From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 26 11:23:42 2022
    On 8/25/2022 2:49 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 11:05:03 AM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
    On 8/25/2022 8:33 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >>>>> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >>>> a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's >>>> length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.
    Yes! but theory is what should happen. Case hardened wood, warped
    wood, what ever the issue, the wood can move slightly and cause all
    kinds of havoc if the piece is short and mostly NOT supported by the
    back fence.


    Most miter saw fences have something like a 2" gap between the left and
    right fence. So if the piece is 2" wide only half of the piece is
    being supported by the end of the fence on either side. The piece can
    easily pivot on the end of the fence and get thrown by the blade.

    A few weeks ago I was cutting base board moldings. In some cases the
    piece needed was mitered on one end and square cut on the opposite and
    they were 1.5" long.
    This was a dangerous cut and I stood clear of the where that piece would
    fly back should it pivot against the end of the fence. It happened
    twice. Ideally this should have been done a TS but I was not at the shop.

    I agree with everything you've said here. I thought I addressed that issue
    a few days ago, but looking back I see that I did not mentioned it. I know that I thought about, because it makes a big difference in terms of my
    hand placement question:

    Both of my miter saws have zero clearance fences and zero clearance inserts. I wouldn't cut some of the small pieces that I do without the fence and insert
    backing up both sides as well as the bottom of the cut.

    Yes but normally I cut small pieces in my shop on the TS. This was an
    onsite job and I do not have zero clearance fences on my Kapex, yet.
    And I am not certain that a zero clearance fence would be the answer in
    this case. The moldings were too tall to make miter cuts, So I made
    bevel cuts which would have made a V on a Zero clearance fence. That
    still would have provided poor support.




    On the other hand (PI), you are talking about a situation where the cutoff could
    be thrown, while I'm asking about hand placement on the board. In either case, a
    zero clearance fence makes a huge difference.

    Again bevel cuts vs miter cuts.



    (I was cutting some plugs in half on my bandsaw recently. I used blue painters
    tape to create a zero clearance "insert" around the blade so that the plug was fully
    supported by the table as it went through the blade.)

    +1

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to Leon on Fri Aug 26 10:57:01 2022
    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 12:23:50 PM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
    On 8/25/2022 2:49 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 11:05:03 AM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
    On 8/25/2022 8:33 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
    On 8/24/2022 11:12 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 10:45:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: >>>>> On 8/18/2022 12:19 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 11:46:11 PM UTC-4, Markem618 wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:09:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:

    Survey time...

    How close to your miter saw blade do you allow your fingers to get >>>>>>>> while making a cut?
    End of the table with the left, right hand is on the switch.

    So you never cut boards that are shorter than half the table?
    If too short for comfort I put another board on top to hold it.

    Now there's a technique I've seen or even heard of.

    Never measure but my limit is about 12" or so.

    I would need to put a decimal point between the 1 and the 2.

    What do you think could go wrong that keeps you 12" from the blade?

    Let's cut that in half. (NPI) Let's say your hand was 6" away. How would >>>> a person get hurt by a miter saw with a hand that is more than a finger's
    length away?

    In theory, the blade travels a tight path so 1/4" is safe.
    Yes! but theory is what should happen. Case hardened wood, warped
    wood, what ever the issue, the wood can move slightly and cause all
    kinds of havoc if the piece is short and mostly NOT supported by the
    back fence.


    Most miter saw fences have something like a 2" gap between the left and
    right fence. So if the piece is 2" wide only half of the piece is
    being supported by the end of the fence on either side. The piece can
    easily pivot on the end of the fence and get thrown by the blade.

    A few weeks ago I was cutting base board moldings. In some cases the
    piece needed was mitered on one end and square cut on the opposite and
    they were 1.5" long.
    This was a dangerous cut and I stood clear of the where that piece would >> fly back should it pivot against the end of the fence. It happened
    twice. Ideally this should have been done a TS but I was not at the shop.

    I agree with everything you've said here. I thought I addressed that issue a few days ago, but looking back I see that I did not mentioned it. I know that I thought about, because it makes a big difference in terms of my
    hand placement question:

    Both of my miter saws have zero clearance fences and zero clearance inserts.
    I wouldn't cut some of the small pieces that I do without the fence and insert
    backing up both sides as well as the bottom of the cut.
    Yes but normally I cut small pieces in my shop on the TS. This was an
    onsite job and I do not have zero clearance fences on my Kapex, yet.
    And I am not certain that a zero clearance fence would be the answer in
    this case. The moldings were too tall to make miter cuts, So I made
    bevel cuts which would have made a V on a Zero clearance fence. That
    still would have provided poor support.

    Yes...not all situations are equal.

    On the other hand (PI), you are talking about a situation where the cutoff could
    be thrown, while I'm asking about hand placement on the board. In either case, a
    zero clearance fence makes a huge difference.
    Again bevel cuts vs miter cuts.

    Yes...not all situations are equal.


    (I was cutting some plugs in half on my bandsaw recently. I used blue painters
    tape to create a zero clearance "insert" around the blade so that the plug was fully
    supported by the table as it went through the blade.)

    +1

    Thanks.

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  • From pyotr filipivich@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 26 11:30:51 2022
    Bill <nonegiven@att.net> on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:06:51 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following:
    On 8/25/2022 3:30 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up
    a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.

    Sometimes, you have no idea what could go wrong, until it does.

    E.G., jack stands on cobblestone paving are mostly stable. Until
    they are not, and the one stone under the leg "packs" down just that
    "little bit" to get vector of the weight of the bus past the
    metacenter, and the jack tips. Just a little, before it falls over. Fortunately, I heard the "creaking" and rolled out from underneath as
    it fell.
    So, now I know "what can go wrong" for a large class of
    activities.

    Someone formulated a rule (which can't restate exactly), but the gist of
    it is that the "set up" should be such that there are at least two
    mistakes in front of any major mishap, not just one.
    --
    pyotr filipivich
    This Week's Panel: Us & Them - Eliminating Them.
    Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm)
    Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm)

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  • From DerbyDad03@21:1/5 to pyotr filipivich on Fri Aug 26 15:16:00 2022
    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 2:30:58 PM UTC-4, pyotr filipivich wrote:
    Bill <none...@att.net> on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:06:51 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following:
    On 8/25/2022 3:30 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:

    I ask myself that question all time and not just in the shop. Setting up >> a ladder, jacking up the car, any situation where something *could* go
    wrong, I ask myself "What could go wrong?" and then I adjust my plan
    as required.
    Sometimes, you have no idea what could go wrong, until it does.

    That's absolutely true but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't ask yourself
    the "What could go wrong?" question and, using your past knowledge and experience, eliminate all of the possible issues that you can think of.

    Similar to what you said, there's an old saying "We don't know what we don't know." Simply reminding ourselves of that can help make the surprises less surprising.


    E.G., jack stands on cobblestone paving are mostly stable. Until
    they are not, and the one stone under the leg "packs" down just that
    "little bit" to get vector of the weight of the bus past the
    metacenter, and the jack tips. Just a little, before it falls over.

    I have four 12" x 12" x 1/4" steel plates stored with my jack stands. I
    don't take any chances when I get under a vehicle. Each jack stand gets
    a solid platform of its own. (The plates also prevent the legs from leaving indentations on a hot asphalt driveway.)

    ...snip...

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to JayPique@hotmail.com on Fri Aug 26 22:37:25 2022
    On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:01:51 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

    Actually you said, and I quote, "Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward."
    But we both know why you changed it.

    Oh, good grief. Are you always such an asshole?

    First, you *did* say 12". Second, I'm not really that concerned about
    the hand holding the handle.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to teamarrows@eznet.net on Fri Aug 26 22:40:29 2022
    On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:13:24 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
    <teamarrows@eznet.net> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was Ed.


    Sorry, I apologize.

    I *questioned* Ed's limit of 12", asking what he thought could wrong that
    set 12" as his limit.

    I don't know what could go wrong that far away but I'm not taking
    chances if there is nothing to gain by doing so. It's good to have
    rules for oneself (like never reaching past the blade of a table saw
    that's still spinning or never, ever, stand behind the workpiece and
    if at all possible, hide behind the fence.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Sat Aug 27 05:56:06 2022
    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:40:35 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:

    if at all possible, hide behind the fence.

    Lol. Now you're just trolling.

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  • From Jay Pique@21:1/5 to k...@notreal.com on Sat Aug 27 05:54:44 2022
    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:37:31 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:01:51 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

    Actually you said, and I quote, "Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward."
    But we both know why you changed it.
    Oh, good grief. Are you always such an asshole?

    First, you *did* say 12". Second, I'm not really that concerned about
    the hand holding the handle.

    Yes - and you just assumed I was addressing you. Read the thread.
    You and I both know you're just spewing nonsense. You've already backpedaled once. Now you're going to claim you center your sternum on the blade of the saw so your ' sternum to shoulder = 9" ' blather sort of makes sense?

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to JayPique@hotmail.com on Mon Aug 29 14:27:04 2022
    On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 05:54:44 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:37:31 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:01:51 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 8:32:15 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote: >> >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayP...@hotmail.com> wrote:

    12" from the blade on many (most?) miter saws is outside of the fence - you'd be pushing against air.
    13" from blade to edge of table on one, 11" on the other. From
    sternum to shoulder = 9". It works even without a miter station.

    What are you even talking about -is this meant for me or your tailor?
    Read the thread. *I* didn't say 12". That was DD.

    *I* said a shoulder's width (i.e. arm kept straight from shoulder to
    saw).

    Actually you said, and I quote, "Shoulder's width. Both arms/hands straight forward."
    But we both know why you changed it.
    Oh, good grief. Are you always such an asshole?

    First, you *did* say 12". Second, I'm not really that concerned about
    the hand holding the handle.

    Yes - and you just assumed I was addressing you. Read the thread.

    I'm where the wider hand position started from.

    You and I both know you're just spewing nonsense. You've already backpedaled once. Now you're going to claim you center your sternum on the blade of the saw so your ' sternum to shoulder = 9" ' blather sort of makes sense?

    Wrong, but I wouldn't expect you to be able to read. I did go into the
    shop and try it. Yes, my left arm was straight in front of my left
    shoulder. The right arm inward, yes. That's a natural position for
    me.

    Anyway, join the asshole club. You two make a fine couple.

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  • From krw@notreal.com@21:1/5 to JayPique@hotmail.com on Mon Aug 29 14:36:42 2022
    On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 05:56:06 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
    <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:40:35 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:

    if at all possible, hide behind the fence.

    Lol. Now you're just trolling.

    No, you're just still being asshole #2. You ought to try another
    shtick. You've mastered this one.

    I do hide behind the fence if at all possible. I stand to its right
    and push with my left so nothing will come back at me. I don't break
    down sheet goods on my table saw so it works for most operations.
    Small crosscuts and pieces don't often kick back. Sometimes really
    long boards have to be held more from behind so it doesn't always work
    but whenever possible...

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