SawStop Spoof Goes Prime Time
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SawStop Spoof Goes Prime Time
Stephen Colbert Takes the Sizzle Out of SawStop. Check out this video.
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dusty
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Sawstop
I believe the spoof is doing the wrong thing.
I do not want the Sawstop technology to be mandated by our Government into our shops but I do believe the technology is fantastic and would do much good in many applications. We should not make fun of it.
One place I believe is appropriate for the installation of Sawstop would be school wood shops - if they ever come back into existence.
I do not want the Sawstop technology to be mandated by our Government into our shops but I do believe the technology is fantastic and would do much good in many applications. We should not make fun of it.
One place I believe is appropriate for the installation of Sawstop would be school wood shops - if they ever come back into existence.
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Some interesting comments followed it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Some saw it as making fun of/criticizing Gass.
Others saw it as making fun of the short fingered guy.
Some saw it as lampooning the CPSC guy.
Enough truth to go around.
Most saw it as too much Guv nanny.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Some saw it as making fun of/criticizing Gass.
Others saw it as making fun of the short fingered guy.
Some saw it as lampooning the CPSC guy.
Enough truth to go around.
Most saw it as too much Guv nanny.
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Whatever happened to choice? This issue although is not as serious as the 2nd Amendment freedom which many have in this country, but many don't. My opinion doesn't count, but I was 18 when I went into the service in the early 1970's like perhaps many of us. I was trained to shoot weapons which I am not able to carry in the state I live or in places like NYC. Just crooks do...
I about had a heart attack the first time I heard the saw stop engage. It is amazing how quickly a person can be protected from themselves or just a plain simple accident.
This is a forum about Shopsmiths. If Shopsmith were mandated to conform, they might just close their doors. I am a strong proponent of shop safety & training. There are many dangerous activities that are inherently dangerous, but, people are properly trained and hopefully realize just how serious a table saw, a jig saw, a chain saw, or anything that can tear away flesh can be and use it safely and by all means use the safety devices- the riving knife, etc and it will continue to be a safe hobby.
But the question will always remain, but what if? That is something most people ask themselves after they've been permanently injured. Hindsight is 20:20. I made a comment about using a radial arm saw which shot a piece of wood from my hands, to the back wall, and then completely across a wood shop. I was lucky. But had I been properly trained as I was in a hobby shop, I would have had the wood against the rear fence so when the first tooth of the blade hit the wood, it would have gone no where.
The big case in MA that a man was awarded $1.5M because he didn't read the instructions and then misused the equipment was the case that I believe Saw STop is counting on to mandate- in other words- "make a fortune" which is not right either.
I am very careful whenever working with any tool. I use jack stands when working under my car as hydraulic jacks have been known to fail. But anticipating a potential accident with equipping people with knowledge is a good first step. Stores selling this equipment are just as much at fault- weekly classes on the safe use of power tools in the store or simply including a DVD showing what could happen.
But like anything economics is a driving force in people's decisions to purchase what they do. Expensive saw blades are ruined when a Saw Stop falsely trips. Stuff happens. But people should have a choice.
I about had a heart attack the first time I heard the saw stop engage. It is amazing how quickly a person can be protected from themselves or just a plain simple accident.
This is a forum about Shopsmiths. If Shopsmith were mandated to conform, they might just close their doors. I am a strong proponent of shop safety & training. There are many dangerous activities that are inherently dangerous, but, people are properly trained and hopefully realize just how serious a table saw, a jig saw, a chain saw, or anything that can tear away flesh can be and use it safely and by all means use the safety devices- the riving knife, etc and it will continue to be a safe hobby.
But the question will always remain, but what if? That is something most people ask themselves after they've been permanently injured. Hindsight is 20:20. I made a comment about using a radial arm saw which shot a piece of wood from my hands, to the back wall, and then completely across a wood shop. I was lucky. But had I been properly trained as I was in a hobby shop, I would have had the wood against the rear fence so when the first tooth of the blade hit the wood, it would have gone no where.
The big case in MA that a man was awarded $1.5M because he didn't read the instructions and then misused the equipment was the case that I believe Saw STop is counting on to mandate- in other words- "make a fortune" which is not right either.
I am very careful whenever working with any tool. I use jack stands when working under my car as hydraulic jacks have been known to fail. But anticipating a potential accident with equipping people with knowledge is a good first step. Stores selling this equipment are just as much at fault- weekly classes on the safe use of power tools in the store or simply including a DVD showing what could happen.
But like anything economics is a driving force in people's decisions to purchase what they do. Expensive saw blades are ruined when a Saw Stop falsely trips. Stuff happens. But people should have a choice.
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I think SS would have to stop selling saw blades and saw blade table inserts and rename them Mark IV and Mark 6.
That should 'work around' the issue!;)
They are not circular table saws any more.
They are not WAS as a table saw anyway(too small and the table tilts:eek:)!
That should 'work around' the issue!;)
They are not circular table saws any more.
They are not WAS as a table saw anyway(too small and the table tilts:eek:)!
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What I saw in that video was Colbert ridiculing opponents of the SawStop and those that view the government as interfering in an individual's personal affairs, i.e., becoming the nanny state, and the audience was eating it up. A typical portrayal of "facts" by a liberal. An idiot woodworker who needs protection from himself; Gass, the hero who invented the fix; uncaring tool manufactures; and, an indecisive government thrown in for good measure.
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