Mac Cool wrote:

"J. Clarke" said:

Are you beginning to see a pattern?

Yeah. You seem to have an interest in Sawstop failing... why?

I don't give a damn whether they fail or succeed. But I also don't see any
product delivered and I do see claims here that more than one person has
already had his hand protected from being cut off by this device that has
not yet been shipped.

The fact that a prototype has been demonstrated does not mean that the
product will ever become available commercially.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. I say they'll come to market.

Could be. Do they have decent capitalization?

As for paying $150 to gain almost foolproof protection against losing a
finger, would you toss your Unisaw to buy one of theirs?

If I were in the market for a new saw, I would pay an additional $150 for
that type of protection. I wouldn't 'toss' a perfectly good Unisaw for the
sake of a $150 safety device.

There's the problem. First, it's not a retrofit and I doubt that anybody's
going to buy a new saw just to get that feature, and second if you look at
the prices on their site you'll see it's going to cost a lot more than $150
extra to get a saw with their device installed for the foreseeable future.
I mean how big a market is there for a $2500 3 horsepower cabinet saw from
some outfit that nobody has ever heard of?

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