Author Topic: Smart table saw (Read 638 times)

FiLtH · « **Reply #15 on:** April 03, 2007, 08:03:39 AM »

They are taking the fun outta everything!

Lye-El · « **Reply #16 on:** April 03, 2007, 10:12:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Sabre
That was me that posted about the SawStop (http://www.sawstop.com). Amazing engineering, and on my wish list.

On my wish list too. If I can ever afford to upgrade to a good saw, this is what I intend to get.

One lapse, one error in judgment, one bad luck second and this saw will have paid for itself many times over.

midnight Target · « **Reply #17 on:** April 03, 2007, 10:21:57 AM »

We were looking at one for our cabinet shop. Even with workman's comp going through the roof, $3500 for a mediocre table saw is crazy.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #18 on:** April 03, 2007, 11:04:37 AM »

I happened to see a middle-aged guy come into the ER crying and screaming because he'd just cut off his finger with a saw. Caused quite a scene. Something tells me he would have gladly paid $3500 to save that finger.

midnight Target · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2007, 11:57:51 AM »

Man that sounded liberal.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #20 on:** April 03, 2007, 12:31:30 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Man that sounded liberal.

And I think yours was the most conservative thing I've seen you say in quite a while.

Happily not all of us on this board are neo-cons. Some of us are happy to stand somewhere in the middle.

Chairboy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 03, 2007, 01:01:32 PM »

And some of us think that the whole Left/Right wing one-dimensional line is terribly inaccurate because of all the things it misses:

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

Sabre · « **Reply #22 on:** April 03, 2007, 01:17:54 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
We were looking at one for our cabinet shop. Even with workman's comp going through the roof, $3500 for a mediocre table saw is crazy.

I looked one over at our local woodworker's shop. It seemed a pretty well built, quality piece of machinery. Price started at around $2700, and went up from there (table extension, cutting fence, etc.). What about the SawStop did you find substandard? Given the potential cost of a table saw accident, it would seem to be a pretty good investment.

midnight Target · « **Reply #23 on:** April 03, 2007, 01:39:18 PM »

Actually we have never had a table saw accident. We have had chop saw and radial arm saw and even upright panel saw accidents, but never on a table saw. It is really pretty easy to keep from doing something stupid on a table saw.

Sabre · « **Reply #24 on:** April 05, 2007, 05:41:26 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Actually we have never had a table saw accident. We have had chop saw and radial arm saw and even upright panel saw accidents, but never on a table saw. It is really pretty easy to keep from doing something stupid on a table saw.

Table saw is the only piece of equipment in my shop that makes me nervous. I respect all of them of course, but the tablesaw is the one I'm most cautious with. Again, what about the Sawstop do you find substandard, MT? As you work in the woodworking industry, I'd like to hear you specific opinions on it.

midnight Target · « **Reply #25 on:** April 05, 2007, 05:49:17 PM »

I hardly consider what I do the woodworking industry. But in general it was not what we would consider "industrial strength". We cut tens of thousands of boards a week, we can wear out a saw in no time at all.

On a side note... I knew I should have kept my mouth shut. We had a guy cut his thumb today on a table saw.... karma.

Not serious , but still... dam!

Chairboy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 05, 2007, 06:22:51 PM »

I'd really like to see the SawStop technology available as a retrofit for existing equipment. That might do a lot to address the concerns of folks like MT who already have good, proven tools that work fine except for the whole cutting off the occasional arm thing.