My vote for the riving knife!

[Philip Rodriquez]

Nice, I didn't think about using my BS... Doh!

[Howard Acheson]

>>>> I finally got the board free of the blade and riving knife

The way we used to do it in the shop I was involved with was to put a wedge in the kerf either right after the riving knife of just before the riving knife. Sometimes a large screw driver or a chisel will work. The idea is to wedge the kerf open.

Once you free up the kerf, you can generally complete the cut but it's generally safer to get the board off and figure out some other way to cut it.

[Don Morris]

I always thought I paid too much for my Biesemyer add-on splitter for my Griz 1023SL. Around $125.00 as I remember (probably no more that $5.00 of metal). Maybe not.

[Rob Price]

>>>> I finally got the board free of the blade and riving knife

The way we used to do it in the shop I was involved with was to put a wedge in the kerf either right after the riving knife of just before the riving knife. Sometimes a large screw driver or a chisel will work. The idea is to wedge the kerf open.

Once you free up the kerf, you can generally complete the cut but it's generally safer to get the board off and figure out some other way to cut it.

Trust me, I tried. The board didn't make it past the knife to begin with, and I keep it pretty close to the saw blade and I didn't want to tear up the blade with my screwdriver. I honestly thought about taking the dremel to it right next to the knife, but I was finally able to bend the wood enough to wiggle it up and free. I only had the top of the teeth above the board so I didn't have far to go. I think I definitely made it worse by pushing harder