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Speaker 1: you can find our House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. Also,
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Speaker 1: of the KFI website find the gift Guide there. It's
Speaker 1: a downloadable PDF and all of the links are active
Speaker 1: or interactive so that they will take you right to
Speaker 1: the places where we sourced some of these tools and gear.
Speaker 1: So but you can follow along, just follow along, find
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Speaker 1: we're going to get back to the gift guide in
Speaker 1: a bit. Butts top of the hour, which means time
Speaker 1: to go to the phones. I want to talk to Greg. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 1: welcome home, Hidin.
Speaker 2: Good morning, we're habbing some uninvited house guests for the holidays.
Speaker 2: We found we found termites in our art workroom because
Speaker 2: they're leaving droppings out of a little tiny hole in
Speaker 2: the wall. So they've been chewing their way right through
Speaker 2: the dry wall to the small little hole and leaving
Speaker 2: a pile of droppings on top of a bookcase. So
Speaker 2: we have three cats and we prefer a non tent
Speaker 2: solution to this. So is there some premieer exterminator in
Speaker 2: Orange County that offers some effective non tent treatment.
Speaker 1: Yes, there is, Yes there is, and not currently a
Speaker 1: sponsor of the show, although we're begging them to be.
Speaker 1: But I will give you this recommendation. I think you
Speaker 1: should call E Cola, Okay, e c O l A.
Speaker 1: Or you can think of it as an Eco l A.
Speaker 1: Just fantastic, fantastic pest control company, very caring, very individualized
Speaker 1: in their approach to every single problem. Now will they
Speaker 1: ten sure if if they have to, But they are
Speaker 1: a company that understands that tentting is the nuclear option
Speaker 1: that you only go to when all else has failed
Speaker 1: or things have gone too far for too long. They
Speaker 1: use all sorts of methodologies, everything from a bark extract
Speaker 1: to to deter termites in the first place, to a
Speaker 1: citrus oils to in one of the things they do
Speaker 1: which I absolutely love. Our heat treatments. They can spot
Speaker 1: heat treat, they can laser heat treat all sorts of areas.
Speaker 1: There are so many options. I'm glad you just even
Speaker 1: raise the question, Greg. There are so many options when
Speaker 1: it comes to pest control that are incredibly effective and
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with the nasty gas based chemicals
Speaker 1: that are soaking the house. And this is a company
Speaker 1: that is at the very tip of that spear when
Speaker 1: it comes to it. They cover all of southern California
Speaker 1: and so they're all over oc and we'll be happy
Speaker 1: to help you figure it all out, very very customized
Speaker 1: and reasonable in their approach, and I think you will
Speaker 1: be very very happy. And that's how you should approach
Speaker 1: this situation, because there's no sense in tenting a house
Speaker 1: just because you found some evidence of termites in one location. Okay,
Speaker 1: unless you've completely had the house, you know, chewed up
Speaker 1: and eaten from top to bottom, and you find all
Speaker 1: these kinds of things everywhere. Tinting is not the option.
Speaker 1: Tentting is not where you should go. You should just
Speaker 1: go with a localized effective treatment.
Speaker 2: Are these effective, these oils or heat or.
Speaker 1: Whatever incredibly effective? Incredibly effective? I still am surprised that
Speaker 1: not more people have, for instance, even if it was
Speaker 1: a whole house problem. By the way, Greg, I still
Speaker 1: want to hear from the folks that eat ecola that
Speaker 1: that we can avoid the tinting, because even okay, so
Speaker 1: as an alternative to tenting, I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 1: tout this one technology. Heat technology is superheating the house
Speaker 1: up to I'm trying to remember what temperature it is.
Speaker 1: Is it one hundred and thirty or one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty degrees interior that they hold it something like yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: and so instead of having to, you know, to bag
Speaker 1: up all the food and and move out for three
Speaker 1: or four days, and you know, this whole kind of
Speaker 1: thing a heat treatment on a house, because what happens
Speaker 1: is at a certain temperature level, the colonies just die.
Speaker 1: They just die. And so it's as an effective as
Speaker 1: a killer as any of the gases are intenting. You
Speaker 1: can treat an entire house this way. All you have
Speaker 1: to remove or protect or things that could melt at
Speaker 1: that temperature. Otherwise you do nothing and guess what. They
Speaker 1: start at like eight in the morning and they're done
Speaker 1: by five that night and you're in your house the
Speaker 1: same day. Okay, so you just out for a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're not even spending the night anywhere else and
Speaker 1: there's no residue of any It was just heat. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some really really effective ways to do it.
Speaker 1: And Eco is a great company here in southern California.
Speaker 1: I hope you're listening ecoll it because you know, we
Speaker 1: should talk it up in twenty twenty five. But yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: my honest assessment, it's a fantastic company. Give them a shot.
Speaker 2: It sounds good. Our big concern is I'm a photographer
Speaker 2: and my wife is an artist, and so we're concerned
Speaker 2: about any damage to photographs, artwork, pints, drawings, paintings, you know,
Speaker 2: in that particular room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. And the
Speaker 1: gas process not a good thing. You just you never
Speaker 1: know how it interacts with things. So again, the heat treatment,
Speaker 1: just because I'm talking about it, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if that's the right one for you, guys. But the
Speaker 1: point is you want to deal with a pest control
Speaker 1: company that has a an arsenal of options, a full
Speaker 1: toolbox of options, not somebody who just says, well, we
Speaker 1: extent the place. Okay, Well yeah, okay, how about a
Speaker 1: little bit of creativity and effectiveness right where the problem
Speaker 1: is happening. Because the chances of you having a full
Speaker 1: house infestation GREG are actually very low, they're very low.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for that reassurance, and we'll get a call,
Speaker 2: we'll see what they have to say.
Speaker 1: Awesome, and then give me a call back and let
Speaker 1: me know how it goes. I appreciate the question and
Speaker 1: the call. That's why we take calls, you know, because
Speaker 1: everybody who's listening gets to you know, kind of the
Speaker 1: what do they say, A rising tide lifts all boats.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, okay, that's how we should deal with it exactly.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program on this gorgeous,
Speaker 1: gorgeous Sunday morning, the first of December twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: here in southern California. I hope it is lovely everywhere
Speaker 1: or where you are specifically. I hope you've got as
Speaker 1: much of a gorgeous day to enjoy, although I'm sure
Speaker 1: the temperature might be a little different. We're in the
Speaker 1: low seventies here today. Pretty impressive, very impressive. That's why
Speaker 1: you live in southern California. That's what I'm saying. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're doing our holiday gift guide. We're gonna come back
Speaker 1: to the phones in a bit because right now, you
Speaker 1: know what, we don't have any calls on the board.
Speaker 1: I get it, I so get It's just a lazy
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. You're just listening. It's great. Great, back to
Speaker 1: the gift guide and we'll head back to the phones
Speaker 1: in a little bit. Where did I leave ovidency pliers coping? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: an inflator now, this is a priceier gift. Okay, a
Speaker 1: battery powered inflator. Now, this is not just a replacement
Speaker 1: for the bicycle pump. They really are far more effective
Speaker 1: and serious tools than that. But yeah, it can be
Speaker 1: used for everything from you know, sports equipment, to bicycle
Speaker 1: tires to automobile tires and everything in between. This is
Speaker 1: a relatively new or I should say newer kind of
Speaker 1: horizon of a tool or category of tool that all
Speaker 1: of the major power tool manufacturers have embraced and have
Speaker 1: their own version of and I should say this. I'm
Speaker 1: going to use this as a jumping off point for
Speaker 1: this little speech because I've said it before and it's
Speaker 1: worth repeating. If you've never heard me say before that,
Speaker 1: you know you'll notice that there's a lot of Milwaukee
Speaker 1: tools on the gift guide here. Okay, that's simply because
Speaker 1: I am a Milwaukee tool kind of guy. But I
Speaker 1: said earlier, I don't own exclusively Milwaukee tool not even
Speaker 1: close do I own exclusively Milwaukee tools. But there's a
Speaker 1: certain wisdom, a utilitarian wisdom to finding a major line
Speaker 1: of power tools, and if at all possible, buying within
Speaker 1: that family. And the main reason is this, especially in
Speaker 1: terms of corded I mean, I'm sorry, cordless okay, corded
Speaker 1: power tools. I don't care what you do, okay, because
Speaker 1: you plug those in. But the power supply for battery
Speaker 1: powered tools are interchangeable if you're buying tools in the
Speaker 1: same family. Not not everyone, because there are different sizes
Speaker 1: of batteries. But the point is I always look when
Speaker 1: I'm needing a power tool, I always look to Milwaukee first,
Speaker 1: because I have a lot of battery powered Milwaukee Tools,
Speaker 1: and it means that I can just buy the tool
Speaker 1: alone and I don't have to quite often rebuy the battery.
Speaker 1: And if you're getting somebody started on their power tool
Speaker 1: journey as a gift giver this holiday season, you should
Speaker 1: take that into consideration. And you should also take in
Speaker 1: consideration if you're planning on getting them a power tool,
Speaker 1: if they've already embraced a family of powered of battery
Speaker 1: powered power tools. Okay, because if they already have, then
Speaker 1: try to buy within that family so that we don't
Speaker 1: have to keep buying new batteries for everything, because that
Speaker 1: gets unwieldy. Right. I've got Bosh batteries charging over here,
Speaker 1: and I've got Dwalt batteries charging over there, and Milwaukee
Speaker 1: batteries charging over there, you know, because those batteries, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't interact with other brands. So if at all possible,
Speaker 1: buy within that particular family. So that's why Milwaukee Tools
Speaker 1: are showing up in the gift Guide. But I want
Speaker 1: to make it really clear, the most important part of
Speaker 1: the Gift Guide is to spark these ideas, okay for you,
Speaker 1: not necessarily to drive you directly to one specific products.
Speaker 1: So the idea of a cordless inflator so so valuable.
Speaker 1: And I'm about to describe the Milwaukee But what I'm
Speaker 1: about to say applies to Yes, I'm mean answer that question.
Speaker 1: Does Dwald have an inflator, Yes they do. Does Makida
Speaker 1: have an infla, Yes they do. How about Bosh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the major power tool manufacturers have their own version
Speaker 1: of this, so you could buy within that family of tools. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a pearl of wisdom, the Milwaukee inflator. How awesome
Speaker 1: is it? It's pretty dang awesome. Whenever I'm working on
Speaker 1: one of our bicycles and repairing a tire or just
Speaker 1: doing whatever, or maybe it's been a couple three weeks
Speaker 1: since we've ridden, and I pull out the bikes and
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure everything is topped off
Speaker 1: just right, that the tires are fully inflated, because even
Speaker 1: a good tire can go down over time because air
Speaker 1: moves through those membranes. Then you know, I grab the
Speaker 1: inflator and all you have to do is you look
Speaker 1: on the side of the tire, you like, what's the
Speaker 1: recommended pso eighty PSI, and you start up the inflator,
Speaker 1: Pop the battery in and power it on. You set
Speaker 1: the screen to eighty PSI and you press go, and
Speaker 1: it's simply it's a pressure gauge. It reads the tire pressure.
Speaker 1: It inflates to exactly the psi that you have set
Speaker 1: it to, and then it stops. And it's just that easy.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant. They save time. They're so dang convenient. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: has two different sizes. The one in the gift guide
Speaker 1: is the larger, beefier one. The only difference between the
Speaker 1: two is time. Okay, so this is a let's see here.
Speaker 1: This is one hundred and forty one dollar inflator, cordless inflator.
Speaker 1: The difference is time, meaning how fast it inflates, which
Speaker 1: on a bicycle and a basketball or a football is negligible.
Speaker 1: If that's all you're doing, then you know by the smaller,
Speaker 1: less expensive inflator. But if car tires are going to
Speaker 1: be a part of this as well, and you wanted
Speaker 1: to get it done fast, then there you go. And
Speaker 1: this is not the kind of inflator that I'm recommending
Speaker 1: that you keep in the trunk of the car, right
Speaker 1: because not necessarily going to help you out if you
Speaker 1: get a blowout or a bad leak somewhere that creates
Speaker 1: a flat. But the point is if you are just
Speaker 1: changing tire pressure because the season has changed, because the
Speaker 1: average ambient temperature outside has changed, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: this enabled you to do just that. It's a super
Speaker 1: creative gift. Most people beam when they see it because
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my gosh, this is so awesome, and
Speaker 1: it's so easy to use, and they're built really well.
Speaker 1: Because this is not some as seen on TV thing.
Speaker 1: These are inflating machines that are designed by every major
Speaker 1: manufacturer of handheld power tools. There you go, the Milwaukee
Speaker 1: battery powered inflator or whatever family of inflator your particular
Speaker 1: loved one has already a bunch of power tools for
Speaker 1: and save the batteries. Okay, when we come back, let's
Speaker 1: talk about something that was a little pricey. Let's go
Speaker 1: back into the twenty dollars or less category and talk
Speaker 1: about a hammerless tool that I think every single homeowner
Speaker 1: should own.
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Speaker 1: Your Home Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us on the program. We are right in the middle
Speaker 1: of our twenty twenty four house Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 1: You can follow along. If you go to Instagram or
Speaker 1: Facebook Home with Dean, you will find the gift guide
Speaker 1: right there waiting for you, with photos of everything that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about and the places and the prices that
Speaker 1: you can find them at. You go to the KFI website,
Speaker 1: our little corner of the KFI website, the Dean Sharp page,
Speaker 1: and you will find the gift guide downloadable there and
Speaker 1: on that version the links are actually live and interactive,
Speaker 1: so you can just click on the link and get
Speaker 1: to the source of where we sourced these. You can
Speaker 1: find them many many places, but if you want a
Speaker 1: little help sourcing them directly, you can do it that
Speaker 1: either way. Just follow along with me as we go
Speaker 1: through bits and pieces. I'd probably not could get to
Speaker 1: everything today, but I'm trying to cover as many as
Speaker 1: i can. All Right, here's a great little you call
Speaker 1: it a gift stocking stuffer, however it falls with you
Speaker 1: in this category. The name of this is literally the
Speaker 1: company is Hammerless Tool. Okay, and I've talked about these before.
Speaker 1: These are brilliant. These are you know, for lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, nail sets or taps. Okay, a nail
Speaker 1: set is usually just a long piece of steel that
Speaker 1: you put against something the head of a nail, to
Speaker 1: set it down below the surface of the wood or
Speaker 1: whatever is you're nailing it into. You hit it with
Speaker 1: a hammer, and for a lot of people that can
Speaker 1: be a tricky kind of a thing. And when these
Speaker 1: came out at first, I was like, hmm, I wonder
Speaker 1: how that well this works? And man, they're brilliant. It's
Speaker 1: a double ended nail set, one side very very small,
Speaker 1: the other a little bit larger for larger nails, and
Speaker 1: in between the two is an industrial strength spring that
Speaker 1: what you do. All you do is you put the
Speaker 1: head of this thing on the nail in question, pull
Speaker 1: back the spring and let it go. And that little
Speaker 1: impact that the spring collapsing again creates is amazingly nine
Speaker 1: times out of ten plenty enough to beautifully set a
Speaker 1: nail without have to tap it or hit it with
Speaker 1: a hammer. They are so convenient that whenever I'm doing
Speaker 1: finished work, I always have one of these in my
Speaker 1: bags right on hand, because I'd rather use this than
Speaker 1: pull the hammer out and have you know, both hands
Speaker 1: tied up. It just there's just no reason to pull
Speaker 1: the hammer out when you've got this little guy. I've
Speaker 1: got professional painters who use these constantly. I think Mario
Speaker 1: actually is the one who introduced me to it. He
Speaker 1: was using it one day. I'm like, Mario, what the
Speaker 1: heck is that? And then we had this long conversation
Speaker 1: about it, and he said he wouldn't do a job
Speaker 1: without it. So, whether you're prepping something for paint or
Speaker 1: just some general finish work, these are brilliant eighteen dollars
Speaker 1: for this hammerless tool, big spring in between two nail sets.
Speaker 1: And you know what I love using these four is
Speaker 1: popping door hinges hinge pins out without getting here's where
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm okay, I've been doing this a
Speaker 1: long time. I have no issues worrying about getting a
Speaker 1: hammer out and using a nail set with a hammer.
Speaker 1: I've done it my entire life. I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: my hand or materials. But when it comes to popping
Speaker 1: hingepins out to take a door on and off, I'm
Speaker 1: always concerned about the hammer there because it's so dang
Speaker 1: close to the edge of the trim and the casing
Speaker 1: and the door that it could scrape if you get
Speaker 1: it even slightly misaligned. And so to use one of
Speaker 1: these spring hammerless tools and not have to get a
Speaker 1: hammer anywhere near your door or your doorcasing. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the way to go. Eighteen bucks for this hammerless tool.
Speaker 1: Sticking with the carpentry thing, this is a jump up
Speaker 1: in price. This is now an eighty nine or ninety
Speaker 1: dollars tool. But if you got somebody who's serious about
Speaker 1: doing finished carpentry work and the temptation is to, you know,
Speaker 1: get a get a circular saw out and make a
Speaker 1: beautiful clean cut, straight as an arrow across a large
Speaker 1: board or piece of plywood, something like that, then the
Speaker 1: way to do that is with what we call a
Speaker 1: track saw. A track saw is a saw that is
Speaker 1: embedded in basically a rail that it cannot do anything
Speaker 1: but make a perfectly straight cut. Okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Track saws are amazing, They are fantastic. They do exactly
Speaker 1: what they promise to do. They also start at about
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars for a good track saw, a rail
Speaker 1: integrated tracksaw. That's not the one that I'm recommending for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: what I'm recommending for you as a gift to your
Speaker 1: loved one is not the saw, but a track that
Speaker 1: is specifically designed. I think it's Craig Craig. I think
Speaker 1: this is a Craig track. It's specifically designed to mount
Speaker 1: the circular saw that you've already got, that they already own.
Speaker 1: It literally will mount just about any circular saw to
Speaker 1: this track, and then it converts your standard handheld freehand
Speaker 1: circular saw into a straight edge cutting machine. And what
Speaker 1: does that cost? That cost eighty nine dollars? Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not an inexpensive gift, but it's also not five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, which is where real track saws that are
Speaker 1: a fully integrated start, because you're also paying for a
Speaker 1: second saw. And for the classic di wire who's not
Speaker 1: using a track saw every day as their profession, there's
Speaker 1: no need for them to spend five six, seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars on a track saw that gets picked up maybe
Speaker 1: once a year, if that right. But the track, the
Speaker 1: track itself that they can mount their regular saw to
Speaker 1: that is worth its weight in gold. So I think
Speaker 1: it's by Craig. You can find it again on the
Speaker 1: gift guide eighty nine dollars and it's a total winner,
Speaker 1: all right. The next thing we have to talk about
Speaker 1: is some accessories for a saw that your loved one
Speaker 1: may already possess, and that is a table saw. If
Speaker 1: you've got somebody who likes working with wood and they
Speaker 1: own a table saw, okay, big old tablesaw, or even
Speaker 1: a portable tablesaw, here's what we need to know about
Speaker 1: a table saw. Table saws are statistically by far the
Speaker 1: most dangerous carpentry tool on planet Earth. They are strong,
Speaker 1: they are powerful. They have an open blade without a
Speaker 1: cover that is spinning right at you. And the trick
Speaker 1: of a table saw is that you're using it to
Speaker 1: put a piece of wood and ride it along a
Speaker 1: rail and get a straight cut. And most people who
Speaker 1: use table saws get their hands way too close to
Speaker 1: that blade. Now there are saws out there should probably
Speaker 1: be a law to not manufacture a saw other than this.
Speaker 1: A sau stop makes a beautiful table saw with an
Speaker 1: electric circuitry sensor that if it comes into contact with
Speaker 1: anything that is related to the human body whatsoever, within
Speaker 1: a micro second, it stops and retracts the blade so
Speaker 1: that the most that will happen is the tiniest of
Speaker 1: nicks in the skin. What a brilliant idea. But these
Speaker 1: are expensive table saws. I mean they're pricey, pricey table sauce.
Speaker 1: I've had them on the gift before for that super
Speaker 1: high end purchase. But this year, what I want you
Speaker 1: to focus on is a set of accessories for a
Speaker 1: table saw that promote safety, safety, safety, safety, including and
Speaker 1: not at the expense of brilliantly easy cuts. And to
Speaker 1: do that, we need to talk about what's called a
Speaker 1: featherboard and a pushblock. Okay, these are things that hold
Speaker 1: the wood in place so that you don't have to
Speaker 1: get your hands too close to the blade or your
Speaker 1: loved one. And we'll talk about that right on the
Speaker 1: other side.
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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Welcome home, Thanks for being here,
Speaker 1: Thanks for tolerating non professional talk radio. So glad that
Speaker 1: you're here. We are going through our holiday gift guide today,
Speaker 1: taking ourselves too seriously. But these are seriously good gifts.
Speaker 1: They really really are for the maker, the doer, the crafter,
Speaker 1: the hobbyist, the di wire in your life. You know
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about, and these are some fantastic gift
Speaker 1: ideas for them for this holiday season. So right before
Speaker 1: the break, I started this item on the gift Guide,
Speaker 1: very very important item for those who you know own
Speaker 1: a table saw. Now, table saws come in all shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes. These days, there are a little portable ones.
Speaker 1: That's the kind actually that I own. Why I have
Speaker 1: kind of a modified version. I have a good sized
Speaker 1: portable table saw in its own stand. There are little
Speaker 1: portable table saws you can just throw in the back
Speaker 1: of a pickup truck. A lot of people though, because
Speaker 1: they never are going to take their table saws elsewhere
Speaker 1: to job sites and things like that. I'll have a
Speaker 1: full stationary shop saw at home, a larger, heavier cast
Speaker 1: iron steel table kind of table saw. Anyway, regardless of
Speaker 1: the saw that you're probably looking at a good ten
Speaker 1: inch rotating circular saw blade, a high torque motor. The
Speaker 1: most dangerous tool, I mean invaluable tool, but the most
Speaker 1: dangerous tools statistically in any carpenter's arsenal, because in order
Speaker 1: to get those really straight cuts and keep that wood
Speaker 1: under control and make that beautiful rip cut, the temptation
Speaker 1: is to get your hands way too close to the blade. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about it. It can
Speaker 1: happen to the best of us. Okay, it can happen
Speaker 1: to the best of us, and we just don't want
Speaker 1: it to happen. So how do we avoid this? Now,
Speaker 1: every table saw worth its salt came with a pushbar, okay,
Speaker 1: a push stick that is probably made out of plastic
Speaker 1: against probably eighteen twenty four inches long. And that helps, okay,
Speaker 1: because it allows you to get back and push the
Speaker 1: wood through from a distance, but not a lot of control.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem. That's why people are tempted to
Speaker 1: cheat because a push stick, the leverage is weird. It
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily keep the board pushed up against the rail,
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily keep it from wandering off the blade.
Speaker 1: So push sticks are I mean, it's better than getting
Speaker 1: your fingers close to the blade. But as far as
Speaker 1: the quality of the cut, that's what is inviting us
Speaker 1: and tempting you to get your hands too close to
Speaker 1: the blade. So in order to do that well, and
Speaker 1: in order to save a major surgery for the one
Speaker 1: that you love, then how about get them this for Christmas?
Speaker 1: This year get them a really good feather block, a
Speaker 1: feather board, and a pushblock. Featherboard and pushblock. Now a
Speaker 1: featherboard is is They come in all shapes and sizes,
Speaker 1: but they are some form of board that mounts in
Speaker 1: the rail groove on a table saw. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of grooves in the table itself. That's what we call
Speaker 1: the miter groove. They mount there, They mount securely, and
Speaker 1: then they spin over a push against the wood with this.
Speaker 1: You know, they're called feather boards because they usually have
Speaker 1: small plastic or metal tabs that come out in a
Speaker 1: series and they're headed in one particular direction. They allow
Speaker 1: you to push the wood through in one direction, but
Speaker 1: they will lock it up if it wants to try
Speaker 1: and back out or kick back out. And they also
Speaker 1: help cushion and push the board against the rail so
Speaker 1: that it makes a really smooth straight cut. They're critically
Speaker 1: brilliant tools and or I should say tool accessories. The
Speaker 1: one that I like the most these days, and like
Speaker 1: I said, they come in all shapes and size is
Speaker 1: I really like this featherboard that is on the gift
Speaker 1: guide because it's shaped kind of like a nautilus shell.
Speaker 1: It's got a helical curve shape, and that means that
Speaker 1: it's very super easy to put it in the rail,
Speaker 1: lock it down, and spin it against the wood at
Speaker 1: any distance at all and it gets a lot of
Speaker 1: good contact. They're super super lightweight, super useful, and to
Speaker 1: accompany it. If the rail itself and that's the thing
Speaker 1: that you move left and right to hold the wood against.
Speaker 1: If the rail itself has a groove in it, then
Speaker 1: you can also buy a micro feather board to mount
Speaker 1: on the rail to hold the wood down to the
Speaker 1: table at the same time. But barring that, you should
Speaker 1: also have a really good push block, not a stick,
Speaker 1: but a block that sits on top of the wood
Speaker 1: with a big handle. Your hand is totally clear and safe.
Speaker 1: Even if the wood collapse. Your hand is not getting
Speaker 1: near the blade. But this pushblock allows you to move
Speaker 1: the wood along, push it against the rail, move it
Speaker 1: over the blade even without any risk to you. And
Speaker 1: these are critical elements. Now together they're going to set
Speaker 1: you back about fifty bucks. And believe me, fifty as
Speaker 1: opposed to a fifty thousand dollars reattach a digit surgery
Speaker 1: is well worth it. And you know nothing says I
Speaker 1: love you more than a piece of safety equipment for
Speaker 1: your favorite woodworker or di wire that doesn't get in
Speaker 1: their way. Not only does it make them more safe,
Speaker 1: but it actually makes the cuts better. And you know,
Speaker 1: I could well here, I'll tell you this much. Safety
Speaker 1: is always a tricky wicket when it comes to construction
Speaker 1: because they're you know, I think of it in terms
Speaker 1: of athlete. You know what I'm gonna do, you know what, No,
Speaker 1: never mind, I'm gonna save this for the other side
Speaker 1: of the break, because I want to take a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes to talk to you about the balance between
Speaker 1: safety and effectiveness when it comes to doing construction projects,
Speaker 1: because safety gear is really really important. Too much safety
Speaker 1: gear can actually get in your way and ironically or
Speaker 1: you know, counterintuitively make the job more difficult and even
Speaker 1: more dangerous. And so it's important to find the right bounce.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it on the other side of the break.
Speaker 1: And also it's top of the hour, so we're going
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