Q: How did the Aggie lose a toe when using his table saw?
A: He dropped it on his foot.
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I used to work for a contractor that did picture frames for his artist friends; he had a mechanically operated lever action razor cutter to make the miters, doing the rough cuts on a chop saw. Nice, tight joints.
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For some musical genre, this would be an ideal band name.
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Lasers also can only cut through so much thickness before the focus of the beam becomes an issue, making a wider cut at the bottom where the light begins to disperse. Also thicker material means slower cutting and more powerful lasers, both of which make the “cutting flammable materials” thing even more problematic.
Lasers are great for cutting thin stuff with precision, not so much for large-scale lumber projects.
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Is he working from the wrong side of the machine? seems like it requires him to overreach
I’ve heard about those and that they’re quite nice for the job!
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One like this?
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It’s like you people didn’t even watch the video.
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Reminds me of “Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues”:
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similar, but his was bigger and had a pantograph style lever, cost nearly 1000$ in the 1980’s
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Watch the video - he was trying to induce a kickback.
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Even better is a mechanical log splitter, because the pump handle basically requires you to get your hands out of the way. I guess a bad log could potentially split explosively and still pose a hazard…
Thanks to an Incra miter attachment and a bunch of other hacks this is essentially how my table saw is used 90% of the time.
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Not watching the video is the BB equivalent of not using safety equipment.
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In some ways, though I’m assuming @Richard_Marinos still has the same number of thumbs as he did before.
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I took a class with Roy Underhill at his Woodwright’s School, so I got to see all his fun treadle tools. He definitely mentioned that one of the advantages of a treadle saw is that the motor “automatically detects contact with human flesh”.
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Holy shit I need that.
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No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die
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Back in yon day I was apprenticing with a woodworker in Somerville, and he was having me use a a router to clean up edge banding I had put on like 50 shelves (normally a file would’ve sufficed…) so off I go, and oh somewhere about 20-30 shelves deep I started drifting (mentally) and before I knew it the router bit got bound up in some excess glue, and tried to suck my thumb into its whirling maw. Got so close that the bit took a little off the top of my thumbnail. On pure instinct I screamed and chucked the router a good fifty feet cross the shop (thankfully not at anyone else.) and also, I took the rest of that day off because yeah.
Real talk? 90% of the things in decent wood shop can kill the fuck outta you.
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