A miter saw is the best tool for cutting miters. It’s right there in the name.
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People who are afraid of their tools will do that in real life.
I was trying to think of the tool hardest to fuck yourself up with and the only one I came up with is a log splitter because it’s so damn slow. You could still fuck your hands up if not paying attention, though, and sometimes the pieces shoot off the table pretty fast.
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I’ve seen videos of water saws, it’s amazing to watch how they cut.
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I don’t know what the premium is on the saw, but the cartridge costs a whopping $75 or so. Just depends on how much your hands are worth, I guess.
One of my wife’s friends has probably been running table saws for 50 years, but slipped one day, and it went through three bones in his hand. Miraculously, they were able to mostly reconnect everything, but the hand is still less than 50% functional.
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Just want to say (not sure if mentioned in all the comments or not yet)…he is doing this wrong and misusing the tool. Table saws are not meant for rip cuts on small pieces going with the grain. They are meant to be against the grain.
Now you certainly can use on to do a rip cut, but the biggest danger is exactly what this guy has happen. Which is why he should be using an extension guide to hold both sides.
He’s not following the instructions/directions for proper use…so yes that increases the danger level. Stupidity cultivates accidents.
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Fair enough, but the point is if you are attentive and use proper technique, that sort of thing isn’t likely to happen.
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Software dev here, so my fingers and hands are pretty valuable. The guys at my local Woodcraft speak highly of the SawStop. I should probably get one. A healthy respect is needed for any tool that could rip people’s limbs apart.
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There is a reason that every new tablesaw comes with a blade guard and kickback pawls. Both could have been used for the cut shown and would have prevented the kickback. There are cuts that must be made without a guard (dadoes for example) but oblivious morons shouldn’t be cutting guardless.
So use Swype (I personally prefer SwiftKey)? It’s a free download, IIRC (inexpensive if not) and you can change the default video keyboard on any Android device that lets you download from a store (Google Play or Amazon, for instance) or sideload apps.
Once you have the new keyboard installed, simply open any text-entry dialog to bring up the current keyboard, and the keyboard chooser will appear in the Notification panel every time.
Yeah, it’s only dangerous if you make one of a number of mistakes that are quite easy to make…
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Yes, he is deliberately causing kickback to catch it on camera.
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I was in my school drafting studio, which overlooked the wood shop, daydreaming and watching another student rip a board. It kicked and took his thumb off and threw it across the shop.
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Cars are very dangerous machines if not operated correctly. Get rid of yours.
Bicycles allows the rapid propulsion of large weights/mass (adults are often over 150 pounds). Collisions with said weight/mass at speeds as low as 5 miles per hour can result in broken bones and serious other injury.
Oy vey!
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I don’t have a table saw, so all my cutting is done with my band saw, a Delta 3-wheeler, which has a miter gauge and a rip fence. It would handle the sort of cut he is doing easily and safely. (Obviously I’m not cutting 4x8 plywood panels.)
3-wheelers aren’t known for accuracy, but I can cut a strip 2mm thick from a board with a fair degree of precision. I can resaw thick blocks of material into boards safely, if I’m careful about the amount of blade that’s exposed. The trick is to buy good industrial-quality blades, not the ones from the big-box stores.
A bonus is that the kerf is much thinner, so I don’t turn 3mm of material into sawdust to cut that 2mm strip.
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…at least the blade didn’t detach…otherwise his 'shop would have ended up like this:
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Spot on. I have my father’s old table saw still…it has to be 50 years old at this point and works fantastic. But when I use it I use proper guides and also cut the right materials and sizes on it. small items like the one he is doing I clamp and use my hand saw or compound mitre saw for.
I’ve had the pleasure of working on a well set up two hand crosscut saw, out in the bush, no sound but the music of the blade… not a pit saw, though. My dad had that experience, working in his youth on a B&B gang on the CPR in British Columbia. Junior guy goes in the pit, gets a little dirty 
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This reminds me of something that I observed way back in the 20th century (1970s to be precise) . I was at the Vermont State Fair, and since I had always thought of cutting my own wood for heat I signed up for a chainsaw safety class. The morning class was full so I signed up for the afternoon one. It was cancelled because the official State of Vermont safety instructor injured himself in the morning demo. In those days I don’t think chain brakes were available on many models, but I decided at that moment that I will never use a chain saw.
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