On 4/14/2012 8:02 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Dave wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:49:27 -0500, Leonlcb11211@swbelldotnet
The SawStop demo's I have seen involved the hot dog trick but also
included the other features of the saw so in my case I did not see
selling fear as the only or key selling point.

The fear of table saws, or the perception of that fear is what keeps
many people from buying a table saw. That's one reason why the SawStop
will sell and sell well, despite any of this mandate debate.

Perhaps so, though my experiences with other people has been different.

Yeah, me too.

I've never encountered anyone who was afraid of a table saw - or at least,
it never came out in any conversations. To the contrary, I have met a good
number of people who I feared for, when using a table saw. Mostly those who
just don't pay attention to anything, and you just know that at some point,
something bad is going to happen. Maybe not real bad - or maybe real bad...
but something that they wish had not happened.

Yeah, someone posted a video of a guy using a router table with his
fing-ees needlessly close to the cutter, and using some not very safe
techniques. I felt the fear you speak of for him when watching him, but
then he appeared to be more than a novice, and had all his fing-ees, so
all he gets from me is one raised eyebrow.

I remember my BIL who was a lifetime carpenter cutting shim wedges out
of a 6 inch 2x4 held in his hand, with a giant circular saw. I said
Frank, are you nuts, your gunna whack a fing-ee? He laughed and said,
yeah, been nuts for the past 50 years, when do you think this will
happen? Well he's retired now with two fake knees, but has all his
fing-ees.

He still gets one raised eyebrow from me, but hard to argue with a
lifetime of success.

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