Bill wrote in
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Just curious, does anyone else share this experience/point of
view--that blade guards are unsafe due to a greater likelihood of
small pieces being thrown?

Bill


During certain types of cuts, the blade guard can make things more
dangerous. For example, cuts that do not have enough of an offcut to
support the blade guard on the off cut side. Once the cut is complete,
there's a piece trapped between the guard and blade. Even worse if the
offcut is trapped between antikickback pawls and the blade.

With every safety device, there's operations that it makes safer and
operations it makes more dangerous. It doesn't mean the device is useless,
it just means it needs to be removed for certain operations.

Puckdropper