OK there was this in depth discussion over at Knots
about safety features on Euro table saws.
But what do you guy’s use in the field?
Come on is there really a place where people actually put
all that rigmarole in the way?
Let’s be honest you oldworlders are just as reckless as us.
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But what do you guy's use in the field?
Bosch portable saw. I have a riving knife on it - Mennonite carps showed me how to make it out of the cheap azzed safety thing that comes with the saw. I think Katz came along and showed it on his web site a few years later.
I rarely use the riving knife, hell I often rip free hand through the saw if I need to rip a long scribe and its not very strait. I'm sure the knots crowd would condemn me to hell for my practices but I still have all my fingers and intend to keep it that way!
Doug
I an ashamed to admit it but I take all of the safety gear off. No blade guard and especially no anti kickback knife. I personally feel that I am more careful and safer with them removed.
"It is what it is."
Plus how they going to film the table saw in use if you have the blade guard on!
Norm has his removed for clarity! Sure I believe that.
Doug
Yeah! I alway have a chuckle when I read that disclaimer.
"It is what it is."
learned my set up and tecnique from dougU with the same saw...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Yeah but how do they do it across the pond?
From what I've been reading the saws are very different in the
shop, so do they switch over to "our" type of saw for the jobsite?
I'm with you in that no one uses the guards around here, how
could you.
Well maybe that new Bosch set up, but I haven't tried it.