<story><title>Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=u7sRrC2Jpp4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seancoleman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a hobbyist woodworker. After meeting so many craft store employees with missing fingers (vast majority from table saw accidents) I will never operate anything other than a SawStop [&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sawstop.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sawstop.com&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;p&gt;The origin of SawStop is quite a cool story. The founder and inventor created this auto-stop saw, and tried to sell the tech to all the major saw manufacturers. No company would buy it because they didn&amp;#x27;t think there was a market, so he started a company around it which is disrupting the entire market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saidajigumi</author><text>As a fairly experienced woodworker, I have another angle on this: the SawStop is a band-aid on the typical American &amp;quot;cabinet saw&amp;quot; design.  Cabinet saws (and worse, contractor jobsite table saws) invite doing really dumb things re: workholding.  That is, how the workpiece being cut is secured before, during, and after the cut.  Most of these dumb things are essentially invitations to secure the work using your hands anywhere near the blade.&lt;p&gt;In contrast, variants of sliding table saws are the norm in Europe and elsewhere.  These are common in the US as panel saws for cutting sheet goods, but also come in much smaller sizes which are often better for smaller shops and solid wood-based applications.  The workholding is different: a slider and a few standard accessories eliminates the need for crosscut sleds, common jigs, and a whole display of gripping-things at your local Woodcraft.  The operator stands to the left of the slider, and the blade is to the right – if kickback happens, the operator is entirely out of the line of fire.  Likewise, the operator&amp;#x27;s hands are pushing the slider, not near the blade.  Since the work is moved with and&amp;#x2F;or fixed to the slider this eliminates entire classes of errors that lead to injury.  The design difference is profound, akin to the coding philosophy of &amp;quot;make bad states unrepresentable&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d absolutely prefer a SawStop if I were using a cabinet or contractor saw again, but IMO a sliding table saw is &lt;i&gt;intrinsically&lt;/i&gt; safer than a cabinet saw, even with excellent workholding discipline.</text></comment>
<story><title>Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=u7sRrC2Jpp4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seancoleman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a hobbyist woodworker. After meeting so many craft store employees with missing fingers (vast majority from table saw accidents) I will never operate anything other than a SawStop [&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sawstop.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sawstop.com&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;p&gt;The origin of SawStop is quite a cool story. The founder and inventor created this auto-stop saw, and tried to sell the tech to all the major saw manufacturers. No company would buy it because they didn&amp;#x27;t think there was a market, so he started a company around it which is disrupting the entire market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>I am all for SawStop and their invention.&lt;p&gt;I am also all for the Consumer Product Safety Commission doing their fucking job and requiring this to be part of any table saw sold in the US, without paying SawStop any patent fees.  This is a consumer safety issue; the exact kind of thing that the CPSC was created to manage, and they&amp;#x27;ve done nothing to reduce or limit the number of appendages being cut off in saw accidents.</text></comment>