I’ve seen discussions here before about safety issues in some of the TV fix-it type shows. I just watched a recent This Old House in which a subcontractor was trimming the bottom edge of baseboard on a table saw FREE HAND. Norm Abrams was watching and said nothing. I sent a comment to the TOH website but haven’t received a reply. Does anyone out there have suggestions about what we, as more or less serious woodworkers, can do to get these TV producers to clean up their act.
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There's a lot of discussion over at Fine Homebuilding about the practices depicted in the photos in the magazine. Some of what is shown is remarkably risky. Like it or not, that's what happens in the Real World. Rather than try to get people to not show those kinds of things on TV, I think it would be more instructive to have a web site where the techniques depicted can be analyzed and critiqued.
-Steve
Like the idea. I'm thinking of asking Ask This Old House to critique its own shows now and then. That might have some impact. Perhaps Norm could stand on a soap box made of 3/4" plywood.
To Troost,
The only injury so far is from an attempt to cut a curve freehand on a table saw.
I 'knew' better but did it anyway. I almost lost my left middle finger. Ouch!
So I guess you would not approve of coping large trim on a table saw. What about coping trim with a rotozip? Works great.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
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