New Product: "Grr-Ripper Push Block System — resawing drawer sides."

A few weeks ago when I posted the first of the review of the Grr-Ripper, I said that we would post more uses as we came to them. Here is one that is very important. At right, Beth is setting up to resaw 1/2" slices off this block she has prepared.
	This is the start of the cut. The Grr-Ripper has been set up so that there is one cushioned gripper directly over the 1/2" cutoff section. The others are balanced over the rest of the block.
Beth has moved the outside support to the fence side and has adjusted it so that it can ride smoothly on the fence when the block is pressed down.
	Beth has set the blade height so that it is just higher than 1/2 the thickness of these block. She has made the first cut and has flipped the piece over and is making the second.    It would be this cut that would normally be the dangerous one. If the cut off were left loose, it would be kicked back.
Not so this time. The Grr-Ripper allows Beth to maintain control of both pieces all the way through the cut.
	A few minutes later and Beth has eight nicely sliced drawer sides. The main block of wood can yield and few more but is getting too wobbly to handle. She will add it to the next glued up stack and then continue resawing.
She has applied glue to one of the surfaces and is adding it to her stack of other glued pieces. She will clamp them and when they are dried, she will resaw some more.
	This is a great use for the Grr-Ripper. Resawing boards to make up drawer sides has always been a challenge. Very often I would have thickness planed down to the finished width, and waste a lot of board, not to mention the excessive use of the planer.
Every week in the shop, Andrea, Beth, Gail and I find new uses for the Grr-ripper push shoes. We don't sit around and create the ideas. On the contrary, we setup to do something and then try to come up with the safest way — and the GRR-Rippers are there. The photo at the right is really from another page where Andrea was rabbeting a long piece of mitered sections that were all taped together. Rather than untape and handle one-by-one, we looked at the Grr-Ripper was of "leap-frogging" and it was idea for this task. (story here)