fjimp wrote:So Dusty is this her way of enforcing the topic at hand
I think the answer is probably yes, even though blade guards and riving knife were not a point of discussion. The accident to which she refers was the product of using the shaper with no feather boards (hold downs). The damage was done not by a blade but rather a piece of very fast moving oak. That was in the year 1976. I remember because she mentions it every now and then. She doesn't nag about it, she just slips it into the conversation every now and then.