Awl --

Billy Mays continues to arise from the dead, and pitches the DualSaw,
graveside, along with the Cockney Magnificent, Andrew Sullivan.... TWO
hucksters, on one product. wow.......

And here is the Q: all who think the dualsaw is a completely superfluous
tool, raise dey hands.....

Ooohhh, OOOhhhhh, Me, ME!!!! EA frantically waving his hand from the
back of the class

Does anyone here use/own a dualsaw?? Does anyone see any real value to it?

The infomercial, as are all infomercials (esp. those with the erstwhile
coked-up Billy Mays -- I mean, aren't all infomercial hosts on coke or
speed??), are artful well-choreographed LyingFests, such as never revealing
that ""diamond plate"" is just soft**** 1/8" aluminum, and that cutting out
a sink countertop with ANY circular blade used above-diameter (as they must
be used) CANNOT result in the slug just dropping to the ground, etc.
Or that it can miraculously "cut all those diff. materials" is simply the
gift of carbide, etc etc.

The claim that it is the only saw that can cut backwards says that, well,
Billy et al don't unnerstand climb vs. conventional cutting, altho I will
concede that making that concept moot with counterrotating blades does make
forward/backward cutting more seamless -- to the extent that backward
cutting is even an issue. I don't think I've had the need to cut backwards
with a circular saw more than twice in 40 years.

But in my mind, the dualsaw is little more than an overly expensive trimsaw,
and really just less capable than a regular ole circular saw with a
fine-toothed blade.

In fact, you can calculate the net effect of counterrotating blades,
pitch-wise: It is just half the measured pitch on one of the blades. So a
conventional circular saw with a blade twice as fine as one of the blades on
a dual saw should give essentially the same effect. With the advantage of a
thinner cut/kerf, since you have only one blade.

More shameful milking of the consumer, social darwinism, imo.
BUT, an inneresting mechanical accomplishment, and I wonder if it has any
compelling real-world utility.

Inyway, a trip to the dualsaw website will lead you to well of expense.....
visavis a $39 71/4" Skilsaw (poss. with ball bearings!), and a $10
fine-toothed carbide blade.

Sed trip will reveal an approx price FACTOR of 5-10 TIMES -- which is
ackshooly par for the course for The New Marketing Model (aka The New
Mind****): we are being sold the same ole **** (like vits) for 10x their
normal "fair" retail price -- sometimes 30-50x the fair retail price in the
case of some vits with kitschy names..... holy ****....

Speaking of kitschy, I realized the world of rational marketing had come to
an ignominous end, and The Great Mind**** had begun, when we started giving
fuknautomobiles *names*, instead of simple identifying alphanumerics, the
way MB, bmw sitll do.
A Tundra????? WTF is a fuknTundra????? Armada???? Are we being
invaded???
Goodgawd.....

Ed H., help me out here..... I need to be held.....
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EA