Hello fellow woodworkers. Rich Christianson asked me recently if I would provide WoodworkingNetwork.com with a little more insight into what inspired me to invent the table saw safety device which we ...
Apparently ending decades of efforts to require SawStop-style flesh-sensing safety devices on table saws, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission quietly dropped a proposed rule that had ...
WASHINGTON -- About 10 people lose a finger or mangle a hand in a table saw each day. And for years there has been a technology designed to prevent those injuries, prompting consumer advocates to ...
After four years of promoting a clever safety device and failing to license it to power-tool makers, a small engineering team in Wilsonville, Ore., is entering the manufacturing business. It will ...
A longer version of this story appears at FairWarning. Gerald Wheeler caught the hot dog demonstration at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta in 2002. A man took an Oscar Meyer wiener and ...
This piece originally appeared on FairWarning. Leading power tool manufacturers have conspired for years to thwart adoption of a safety device that could prevent thousands of finger amputations and ...
If you ask around a wood shop, most people will agree that the table saw is the most dangerous tool around. There’s ample evidence that this is true. In 2015, over 30,000 ER visits happened because of ...
One day about 20 years ago, Tom Noffsinger experienced every woodworker's worst nightmare: One final cut on his table saw before knocking off for the day turned into a trip to the emergency room. It ...
This week some of the nation's biggest power tool companies sent their executives to Washington. They came to argue against tougher safety mandates for so-called table saws, the popular power tools ...
Federal regulators are moving closer to implementing new safety standards for table saws. Every year, several thousand Americans cut off their fingers using the tools. Engineers at the Consumer ...
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For sheer portability, you can’t beat the design of the Bosch Corded Table Saw with Gravity-Rise Stand. It’s incredibly powerful and can get the job done anywhere. The stand is lightweight and allows ...