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Re: SawStop Inventor Walks the Walk

Has anyone noticed that the frames depicting the blade cutting through plywood supporting what looks like a significant piece of ‘man-meat’ (yummm! steak!) continues to cut both steak and wood without any indication of stopping the blade, while the hot dog, held in the hand firmly pressed to the cast iron table of the saw stops immediately? What might this tell us? If an operator is cutting a table sized piece of plywood, making it next to impossible for the warm, wet flesh of the operator to firmly contact (i.e. make a good, low resistance connection) the saw table, the likely effect of any blade-finger or blade-hand contact is that the ‘real man-meat’ is cut going to be nicely filleted and cooked V-E-E-R-R-R-Y RARE, without even passing a match at 100 yards. I may be wrong, but that’s what it looks like in this (lawyer?!?!) written cook(ed) book. It seems like the ‘caveat emptor’ here might be to read any and all reams of ‘fine print’ very carefully indeed, and don't put too much trust in a technology that demands a lot of set-up. Just a thought.