First Saw Stop, now we have Saw Drop.

[Dave Lehnert]

Popular woodworking just sent out an e-mail about a new device that Woodworking tool manufactures have been working on called Saw Drop. A device that drops the blade below the table WITHOUT blade damage. It also can tell the difference between wet wood and flesh.

Don't think I'm allowed to post a link to Pop Wood blog but do a search there for
Saw Drop.

EDIT (Chris): Here is the link provided by Brodie below in post #16: http://blogs.popularwoodworking.com/...Woodworking%29

[Chris Padilla]

Folks,

Do not start a debate on Saw Stop and Gass' methods. We've about had it with the topic. Go search for it if you want to read the bashing...it is the same thing over and over again. Any posts referring to this will be deleted.

[Bob Landel]

Sorry Chris, I wasn't involved in any previous debate over SawStop. However I remember reading a couple of negative statements in the past.

[david brum]

Those are fascinating articles. Thanks for posting.

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

Interesting. Also very interesting that it's coming from a group of 'member companies' of the Power Tool Institute. Looks like they've been busy!

I think the 'reaction system' itself will be the subject of significant disputes. Assuming something comes to market based on this, it will be interesting to see what competitive advantage they will see due to the lack of damage to the blade.

[Daniel Berlin]

Interesting. Also very interesting that it's coming from a group of 'member companies' of the Power Tool Institute. Looks like they've been busy!

With how quickly they are acquiring each other, i imagine it will only be one company soon

[Matt Meiser]

Awesome to hear there is competition coming.

[David Hostetler]

It would be nice to have a viable alternative to the SawStop technology. The non destructive safety feature would be a huge advancement over SawStop if it works well...

[Dave Lehnert]

I have not read through everything yet but wonder if the system reacts as fast as Sawstop?

[David Weaver]

If it's triggered by an explosion, I don't see how it could be much slower unless the charge was not substantial enough.

[Jim Rimmer]

I posted something recently about Whirlwind which is a guard that detects when you touch and stops the blade in 1/8 sec. with no damage. The good news in all of this is there is research going on and alternatives will be available and possibly retrofits.

[Neil Brooks]

My thought.

What would be most helpful to ME, as a safety measure, is a spring-loaded, articulated arm, with a silicon-filled "hand" at the end.

Whenever I turn on my table saw, the hand would simply SLAP me, RIGHT across the face.

Pretty sure that ... given THAT ... I'd always be adequately careful, and adequately alert.

Now ... if you'll excuse me ... I'm going to lobby the government to make that mandatory in all of your work shops

[Clarence Miller]

I too am glad to see that competition is doing as it should, forcing companies to get better (case being, can you even buy a B&W tv anymore?) Another fun fact to consider it there are 20 times as many stair related injuries than there are tablesaw injuries. I ain't using the elevator because I've gotten old and fat and get out of breath when I climb stairs, it's for safety.
Please take this as it was intended as a light hearted comment of personal choices.

[Dan Hintz]

Julian,

Links are perfectly valid in many cases. The links that are not allowed include those that promote a website owned by you, promote products you have a vested interest in, links to other forums, etc. Dave would have been within the rules to post a link, but he erred on the side of caution.

The idea being you're not allowing others to profit off of the high ranking Sawmill Creek receives in the search engines. Some members continue to ignore the TOS and put links to their own sites in forum posts and their signature.

[Matt Day]

I can't seem to find any articles about the Saw Drop. I searched Google for "popular woodworking saw drop" and didn't get anything. Lil help?