What material for push block?

[Kyle Iwamoto]

I'm in the I love my Grrippers camp. I also made a few with scraps and have my older Craftsman triangle push block.

[Thomas McCurnin]

I use long push sticks with a nice notch. It keeps my fingers further away from the blade than push blocks. I am super-careful, and quite frankly fairly paranoid about the table saw in general and putting my fingers anywhere near that spinning blade. I make them out of plywood,

[johnny means]

I'm surprised no one mentioned sandpaper. If you use used paper, it's free and easily renewable. Those who think you should never need a lot a pressure have never jointed any man size material. All the wax in the world won't make a 4"x16"x10" board slide easily through a jointer.

[Doug Dawson]

I'm surprised no one mentioned sandpaper. If you use used paper, it's free and easily renewable. Those who think you should never need a lot a pressure have never jointed any man size material. All the wax in the world won't make a 4"x16"x10" board slide easily through a jointer.

Well I don't know. That's about the same size as an 11" Stonehenge. Hard to guess what it weighs, without knowing the species. :^)