Quote Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko View Post
I bet this person blamed the saw. Not their own lack of understanding simple mechanics.
I was a member of a makerspace that had the nicest tablesaw I've ever used, a big three phase job that ran through oak like a hot knife through butter. It had been refitted with a sawstop, and two people fired it in the year or so I was there. When it goes off it sounds like a gunshot, and the whole shop gets deathly quiet. One person had a nick on their finger like a papercut; they were extremely humble and grateful that it prevented a major medical emergency. The other time it fired was a false positive. The user was cutting foil-backed board and the conductive foil tricked the sensor. They were uninjured, embarrassed, and we added another item to the mandatory training to get the code to unlock the saw.

We could not have had a saw like that without a sawstop, and I wish I had one here at home.

On a related note, I feel like an upright panel saw like the ones they use at Home Depot is probably safer than a table saw and does most of the same jobs. Is that wrong?