Archive: July 2010

A simple push stick

July 15, 2010

I’m in between big projects, so I’ve been keeping my self busy with little shop maintenance projects. Monday night I cleaned every saw blade I owned.  While waiting for a particularly nasty blade to loosen up, I looked over at my saw and realized that I really didn’t like my push stick;  so I decided to make a new one. After a little tinkering in Sketchup & an evening in the shop I came up with what you see below.  It’s made  from 3/4″ Baltic birch, and is roughly 15″ long by 8″ tall . I’ve played with it a little bit and I like it a lot better than my old one. The long base creates a large gripping surface, which does an excellent job of keeping the stock tight to the fence.

pushStick