Is this guy nuts or what?

Mike Gager

i was watching another video today from woodsmith podcast and the guy was showing how to build picture frames. this guy was teaching a class of students and hes cutting rabbets in 3/4" square store using his fingers and no push stick.

heres the video

http://www.woodworkingonline.com/200...-in-your-shop/

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Barry99

At least he used hearing protection. LOL

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Barry

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harrysin

I've just watched all episodes of that video and my impressions are that the guy is a first class woodworker, has lots of imagination and knows how to make professional "how to" videos with excellent editing,however, as you have all noticed, he knows nothing about safety which is a great pity.

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jerrymayfield

That guy is an accident waiting to happen.

Jerry

Ghidrah

WoodsNthings,

Ah, momentous moments linger forever.
It isn't a steep or long hill, maybe 70' long and 1.5/10 pitch. I was 17 then, if it didn't start, (which was rare) I eventually got help pushing it back up the hill. However never by my father he refused to help me with it, (didn't want me to buy a 66 VW bug).

The last time I used the hill the clutch pedal slammed the floor, (it snapped the stop cleat) I had to replace the entire pedal cluster. It's been so long, but I think it was a compression issue or lack thereof

All my friends used to call it the love bug, VWs back then weren't built very well, they rotted faster than I don't know what. When I got it there was no front passenger seat, so my girlfriend at the time had to sit in the back, (she hated me anyway). There was a rot hole to the left of the pedal cluster that her cat found interesting until I ran through a puddle, (I filled it with plastic sheet). The rear bumper had rotted off the frame and sometimes cut the engine out when it covered over the tail pipes so I built a wooden replacement. The VW was white, the fenders were rotting off, I found 4 black fenders at the local junk yard. The mechanical tunnel which holds the cables and transferred the heat had holes all over it so very little heat made it to the windshield.

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bobj3

HI Harry

That's like saying the guy is a great sky diver,,, but he forgot to put on his shoot one day /..\

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Bogydave

Looked like he knows something about woodworking, not much about safety.
just hope he's as good or better in first aid (my stomach rolled over thinking about finger loss)
& hope he lives near a hospital.

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Lemuzz

Wow and he has still got all his fingers!!!!!! I wonder for how much longer

Birch

Hey BobJ3, there is a tragic but true case of a fella, a jump master in fact, who DID jump and forgot his chute. Had a stick of jumpers going and got so wrapped and carried away that he followed them right out the door without thinking and WITHOUT his chute,
Terrible. Can you imagine.
True story.
And yeah, the video guy is nuts. But, I gotta say, I have watched other guys do the same sorta thing. Makes you wonder.

opelblues

i have just watched the vid, **** a brick is this guy for real. i have just made 24 cove raised panels over the last 2 weeks, there is know way that my fingers came any where close to the blade or the timber other than turning it for the next cut, next running the cut in one pass holy crap batman!!!!!!!!.
some should report him to work place. DUTY OF CARE - showing a procedure that is that dangerious, **** i carnt eaven speeel im so shocked