nboucher

Just skimmed the study. It's particularly interesting because it focuses exclusively on nonoccupational injuries, and as such is apparently the first study to collect stats specifically for hobbyists and DIYers. (Stats for pros are collected by a different agency and so were excluded from this paper.)

If I read the study correctly, 86 percent of the injuries are to fingers and thumbs due to contact with the blade. Doesn't this contradict the long-held belief that most tablesaw injuries are from kickback? Riving knives would presumably not have as much effect on these injuries as blade guards.

Hendrik, you are so right. I'm one of the saps who told their stories in the link above. My injury required some hand surgery, but I really only lost about an eighth of an inch of my left ring finger: you have to look closely to see it.

However, had the blade guard been in place, the accident would never have happened. I had just finished a groove cut, and had one more rip to do before calling it a night. I'd taken the blade guard off for the groove cut and didn't bother to put it back on for the rip cut. My accident occurred after I'd turned the saw off, but the blade was still coming to a rest when I reached in to pull out the small offcut. The blade guard would have prevented my reaching in so far.

I'm amazed at how many shops don't have blade guards in place. Seems some shops would rather spend for a SawStop than have to keep a blade guard on the saw. Sure it takes 90 seconds for me to reattach the blade guard, but you can bet it's now always on when I'm making a through cut. I even have on on my crosscut sled.

Too bad I had to learn the hard way.

Count me in, please.

On my wish list too.

Thanks for this. I've long admired GH's furniture work and of course his books, and now you've satisfied my curiosity about the other half of his life. I would love to visit him one day. In the meantime, I wish him the best in helping to keep sanity and tradition alive.

These guys knew how to sharpen!

Thanks, No1Teddy, for the translation.

Dave, I got it to work by loading it through the ruby console. Not sure why it didn't work by simply dropping the folder and file into the plug-ins folder, though. Also, the list function seems to work fine, but the cutting diagram file opens up empty. I've probably got a setting off somewhere. Good to have the list, though.

Thanks,
Norman

Dave, thanks for your great work. I've downloaded the Cutlist plug in, placed it into the plug-in folder, but what appears in the pull-down menu is an item named Cost, which has a submenu containing three items: Assign Estimate to Material, Assign Estimate to Faces, and Compute Estimate. None of these leads to the menus you've shown here. I'm using a Mac. Could that be the problem, or am I doing something else wrong?

Norman