Reply to thread

Push shoes (depending on the design) have two major disadvantages; you have reach over the workpiece to use it which shortens your reach overall, at the end of a pass your hand/arm passes directly over the exposed cutters. Push stick extends your reach and doesn't get as far as passing over the cutter.

I'm slightly mystified by kick-back, never seeming to have experienced it. Kick up on the other hand is prevented by a crown guard, or feather board on the fence, or by a push stick if you are holding it down

I do this with push stick in left hand, and/or pressing in towards the fence

I do this with push stick in my right hand

I'd rather be the length of a push stick away

hmm, sounds like a prime case for the Sawstop!