I bought one of these years ago when they first came out. After using it one time, it became a $60 doorstop. I found it very tedious and time consuming to adjust. This jig is no different than the 3 other push-sticks you demonstrated when cutting long stock. The big downside to this jig is having to remove both the blade guard and the riving knife in order to use it. Fingers and hands are in peril and the possibility of a kickback is dramatically increased without the safety guards in place. Your push-shoe is the best of the 4 push-blocks presented by far. I sure do miss my $60!!
Sorry to hear you feel this way. Had you contacted us back then, you could have had your $60 back. I will say that you are in the minority though. 80% of buyers give the GRR-RIPPER 4 or 5 star ratings, and as a 40 year professional woodworker myself, I wont work in my shop without them.
@@MicrojigI just can't support a jig that requires the removal of the essential safety features of a table saw. Perhaps the 80% of buyers don't regard safety as much as I do. In the end each woodworker must operate within their own comfort zone.
@@lesheinen6116 we would never tell you to not use any safety feature that you want to use. We will point out that any rip under about 1" wide does require the removal of the blade guard because it will not physically fit between the blade and fence. You also can't use the blade guard when making non-through cuts such as shoulder cuts and grooves. And any cut wider than about 4" can be made with the GRR-RIPPER and blade guard. Finally, I use the GRR-RIPPER on my router table nearly as often as on the saw, not to mention the bandsaw and jointer.
Email me at Ralph@microjig.com and I will happily buy back your GRR-RIPPER. I would ask the opportunity to talk with you and explain the physics of the cutting/kickback. I have been a professional woodworker for nearly 40 years so I have figured a few things out along the way.
@@Tensquaremetreworkshop The riving knife can help with kickback caused by the rip side of the part wandering away from the rip fence face. But it is not perfect. The riving knife is thin and flexible and can still allow the stock to catch a rear tooth as it comes out of the table top. If you see tool marks on your rip cut, that its where they come from. Also, the riving knife doe nothing to prevent to off fall part of the cut from rattling against the blade after it is separated from the rip side and is no longer being controlled by the push stick. The GRR-RIPPER maintains control over both halves of the stock not only through the cut, but even after, letting you safely remove both from the cutting area with neither edge rubbing on the back of the blade.
What model saw is that? I'll have to study how it retains the dust so well. That's the dirtiest cut of them all and I didn't see anything. ( at 7:35). It's almost as if they have stopped the fan effect of the blade. Even with the best of dust collection, that's pretty remarkable. I'm still trying to make my sawstop PCS collect as good as I had my old Delta CS rigged to do. The Struuuggle is real!
@@mikeconroy2651 I have been a pro woodworker for 40 years. If you take the time to seal the gaps between the cabinet of your saw and the top, you can get some impressive results with a good dust collector.
Ed, you CAN buy the deal through our website, but you will need to pay shipping, and that will not save you any money, Sorry. We do make most of these special deals available to our international retailers, so you may want to ask your local store if they are participating. If they are, you'll get the deal, if not, ask them why not!
Pretty ridiculous comparison of push sticks where you use one hand and then go to use the Grr-riper and you use the other hand to steady the work. Clearly this thing has its uses but to try and one hand the other methods to discredit them is dishonest.
Bear in mind that this video was produced by Marc Spagnolo, so we did not have control over the content. You may disagree with his method (I use a GRR-RIPPER in each hand at the saw most of the time) but you cannot disagree with our results over the 22 years we have been saving fingers. We have sold hundreds of thousands of GRR-RIPPERs and our customer ratings are consistently 4-5 stars. They work.
