The Popular Woodworking E-News jumped on the
Riving Knife bandwagon that seems to be the latest
RAVE. OOOOOOH! A NEW discovery! "Look - the NEW
Bosch contractors saw has - A RIVING KNIFE!"

Are American woodworking magazines really that
impressed when a manufacturer puts wheels on
a cabinet saw - "PowerMatic has once again shown
how innovative they are by - putting wheels on
their cabinet saw! What a break through in machine
design!" Before that break through announcement
it was "One Wrench Bit Changing!" for routers, and
"Now With Left Tilt Blade!" on a table saw.

It's ironic that the New and Innovative Blade
Guard and Riving Knife on the Bocsh in question
also has "anti-kickback pawls" - the latter being
a pretty ineffective idea that just gets in the way.
So while being innovative, they carry over a
"legacy" idea that should have gone the way of
the Dodo decades ago.

I expect to see riving knives on hand held circular
saws being trumpeted as the next New AND Improved
Innovation.

Euro woodworkers must be chuckling - under their
breath of course - no need to offend anyone - and
Festool must be warming up their patent protection
lawyers since their plunge circular saw - with riving
knife, depth of cut stop and anti-splintering devices
will surely be cloned and appearing on competitors
line of high end stuff.

Hey non American woodworkers - what will we
on This Side of The Pond be seeing as the NEXT
Innovation?

charlie b

charlieb wrote:

| Hey non American woodworkers - what will we
| on This Side of The Pond be seeing as the NEXT
| Innovation?

A gee-whiz loose dowling machine called the Bomino that uses round
bamboo loose dowels (that word _does_ begin with a 'd', btw.) The
design permits use of both purpose-made dowels and/or broken
chopsticks...

(Sorry, I'm an American woodworker - but I couldn't resist!)

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

"charlieb" wrote in message


Hey non American woodworkers - what will we
on This Side of The Pond be seeing as the NEXT
Innovation?

Wooden soup bowls, exported to the US to feed the hungry, out of work in the
soup lines (being the preponderance of those who are neither lawyers,
politicians, government employees, nor MBA/CEO's).

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KarlC@ (the obvious)

Morris Dovey wrote:

| Hey non American woodworkers - what will we
| on This Side of The Pond be seeing as the NEXT
| Innovation?

A gee-whiz loose dowling machine called the Bomino that uses round
bamboo loose dowels (that word _does_ begin with a 'd', btw.) The
design permits use of both purpose-made dowels and/or broken
chopsticks...

(Sorry, I'm an American woodworker - but I couldn't resist!)


I believe you're referring to Fussytool's BAMBINO.

A South American tool manufacturer is working on a knock
off of the BAMBINO. Rumor has it that is will use reddish
brown cockaroach shaped proprietary loose tenons and the
Marketing Department is rumored to be seriously considering
calling it the CARRAMBA after CoocaRahcha was poorly recieved
by several focus groups. Prototypes have been provided
to a select group of woodworkers, in Tierra Del Fuego as well
as Greenland for Beta testing.

Woodworking tools specialists from Fine WoodWorking and
Popular Woodworking will begin sleuthing out some of the
top secret stuff about this new tool - as soon as they
complete their current assignment - "Bronze. Wooden
Tools Obsolete?".

charlie b

On Aug 8, 1:47 pm, charlieb wrote:
Morris Dovey wrote:
| Hey non American woodworkers - what will we
| on This Side of The Pond be seeing as the NEXT
| Innovation?

A gee-whiz loose dowling machine called the Bomino that uses round
bamboo loose dowels (that word _does_ begin with a 'd', btw.) The
design permits use of both purpose-made dowels and/or broken
chopsticks...

(Sorry, I'm an American woodworker - but I couldn't resist!)

I believe you're referring to Fussytool's BAMBINO.

A South American tool manufacturer is working on a knock
off of the BAMBINO. Rumor has it that is will use reddish
brown cockaroach shaped proprietary loose tenons and the
Marketing Department is rumored to be seriously considering
calling it the CARRAMBA after CoocaRahcha was poorly recieved
by several focus groups. Prototypes have been provided
to a select group of woodworkers, in Tierra Del Fuego as well
as Greenland for Beta testing.

Woodworking tools specialists from Fine WoodWorking and
Popular Woodworking will begin sleuthing out some of the
top secret stuff about this new tool - as soon as they
complete their current assignment - "Bronze. Wooden
Tools Obsolete?".

charlie b

Festool has a sliding miter saw that has its rails in the front of the
saw instead of the rear like they all have now- sort of like a radial
arm saw. Now if they could make it take a dado blade set that would
be awesome!!!!!
Gene