A Better Push Stick from ADS

Well, the world might be on the lookout for a better mouse trap, but for me, it's a better push stick that I'm always after. And I was searching around the web the other day, and I stumbled upon this site called tablesawpushstick.com And I took a look and they claim to have the world's best engineered push stick. So, that got my attention and I wanted to take a look at one. So I brought it in, tried it out in the shop a little bit. I wanted to share some of my observations about this. First, it's manufactured in America by a company called ADS Tool Designs. And it's, my first impression when I took it out of the package was: much larger and more substantial than I had imagined for a push stick. So, it is a, it really keeps your hand positioned well away from the spinning table saw blade. If I compare it to the size of the normal push stick that I use, you can see it's a world of difference. So, the second thing that I noticed was this soft rubber cushion on the bottom. And this really allows me to have very good control over the workpiece compared to my typical wooden ones that just, you know, they don't have as much grip as a soft piece of rubber does. The third thing that I noticed was this retractable heel. So this is really one of the keys to the design. It's a spring loaded heel that retracts to allow you to have that same full control over the workpiece whether you're ripping a thicker piece of stock like this three-quarter inch piece or a thinner piece. This is probably about an eighth inch. And you'll see that when I get over the top of this, now, this heel retracts into the body of the push stick and it allows me to engage the rubber piece to the wood across the full length of the push stick. Now, I have full control from side to side over this thin piece of stock, which gives me great control as I pass that workpiece through the table saw and past the spinning blade. Now, if I contrast that with the control that I have with my normal push stick, you can see, I have because of the angle that I'm sitting at here. I have a large gap underneath the push stick between the push stick and the workpiece That gives me a lot of vulnerability and a lack of control over that workpiece. So, why don't I fire up the saw and run this through and you'll see kind of the control that I have in working with this push stick. So, you can also get a very nice quality of cut because of the lateral pressure that you're able to apply toward the fence, holding the piece firmly in place as you're going through the cut, which is something that you really can't do with this type of push stick. Really like this new push stick. If you want to take a look, you can find it at www.tablesawpushstick.com Again, it's from a company called ADS Tool Designs which is a small company based in Oregon. So, hope you enjoy it. Take a look. Let me know what you think. Post it in the comments section. Thanks for watching.