So that Sawstop that I bought for my employees

[Mike Zilis]

My experience and it is limited thank goodness is you may not have to buy a new blade. The Sawstop brake is aluminum and as such I carefully removed the blade from the brake. I then took it to the most established saw sharpening outfit in the city that sharpens my blades. They looked at very carefully then took it to the back shop and did another examination. They returned with and said it was fine and could find nothing wrong with it. J. R. Rutter you may want to have an expert check your blade out. You may find useable in every aspect. Just do you due dilligence in making sure it is safe to use.

Same with my miter gauge to blade contact I had a while back. The cartridge did its job to stop the blade dead to rights. I was able to take the blade (Freud Thin Kerf Glue Line Rip) out of the aluminum block. I brought it to my sharpener and he could find no damage at all. I figured it was a fluke until I read Daniel's post.

[Brent VanFossen]

JR: So happy for you. I hope I'll never have to test the brake cartridge on my SS, but we all make mistakes. Glad this one didn't cost you.

[Tom Hintz]

When I did my testing of the SawStop I was very impressed with the braking feature and when I added that on top of the saw being so well made overall my PM2000 as good of a saw as it is, rolled right out the door and the SawStop came in. Glad to see (literally) that you are OK!

[Peter Quinn]

Thank god for that. I wish my boss was as progressive as you. Perhaps if he had skin in the game (literally) he'd feel otherwise. Sadly I suspect it will,take a lawsuit. When i go into the lumber store I always look around at guys hands and do a finger count, mostly a curiosity, amazing how many pros can't count past 8 any more and how few own a SS.

Be well and so glad you can count to 10 with your shoes on.

[Patrick McCarthy]

JR, i have always appreciated your posts from a technical level as well as a human level; although few of us get to meet face to face, we all draw conclusions as to who are the "good" guys - -and most here seem to be -- and who aren't . . . . you have always seemd to be one of the guys that a lot of us would enjoy meeting and grabbing a sandwich, cup of coffee, etc. Long way of getting to point, very happy you have a story to tell without any blood! As someone who just went from a pm66 to an ics, this is much appreciated by me . . . .and the wife - who "made" me get it, will breathe a BIG sigh of relief.

[Paul Incognito]

JR, i have always appreciated your posts from a technical level as well as a human level; although few of us get to meet face to face, we all draw conclusions as to who are the "good" guys - -and most here seem to be -- and who aren't . . . . you have always seemd to be one of the guys that a lot of us would enjoy meeting and grabbing a sandwich, cup of coffee, etc. Long way of getting to point, very happy you have a story to tell without any blood! As someone who just went from a pm66 to an ics, this is much appreciated by me . . . .and the wife - who "made" me get it, will breathe a BIG sigh of relief.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Glad you got out with only a scratch.
I'll bet the cocktails tasted especially good that night!
Paul

[Rod Sheridan]

JR, excellent news, glad you're OK and your sense of humour is intact.

I have two questions for you,

- were you using a guard on the saw at the time?

- if not are you now considering an overarm or bridge guard?

Regards, Rod.

[Neil Bosdet]

Are you going to send this story into SawStop? They like to get them and I'm sure they will want this one.

Cheers, Neil

[J.R. Rutter]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. My dad took off the tip of one of his fingers on his router table last year, so my wife was very happy that I had the SS yesterday.

JR, excellent news, glad you're OK and your sense of humour is intact.

I have two questions for you,

- were you using a guard on the saw at the time?

- if not are you now considering an overarm or bridge guard?

Regards, Rod.

I have a Biesemeyer overarm guard. I love it because most of what we do on this saw is ripping to width. The guard can be shifted sideways so that you can easily rip down to 1.5" with it in place. It does a good job catching dust as well. The OSHA inspector that I invited in for a survey was more impressed with it than with the SawStop.

But what I was doing was running a 7" wide board up on edge against the fence to cut a 1/2" deep groove. I had just reset the fence to shave off another few thousandths for a perfect fit and was doing a final quick pass. The guard was flipped up and slid sideways at the time.

Here is my saw, btw.

[Rod Sheridan]

Thanks JR, I'm so glad you're OK.


Regards, Rod.

[johnny means]

Sounds like more of Steve Gass's Commie Socialist propaganda to me I bet they won't mention the whopping $69 Sawstop will be asking for a new brake They'll be coming for your Unis soon enough

[J.R. Rutter]

Sounds like more of Steve Gass's Commie Socialist propaganda to me I bet they won't mention the whopping $69 Sawstop will be asking for a new brake They'll be coming for your Unis soon enough

Free if you return the one that saved your thumb

[Peter Aeschliman]

Sounds like more of Steve Gass's Commie Socialist propaganda to me I bet they won't mention the whopping $69 Sawstop will be asking for a new brake They'll be coming for your Unis soon enough

Ha ha, love it (assuming it was sarcasm). It's funny how the critics of the technology are so silent on this thread! I wonder if it's because, well, the saw saved JR's fingertip! Tough to argue against that result.

[Mel Fulks]

How do they differentiate between one that saved a human finger and one that just saved a hot dog that ,tragically ,gets EATEN later anyway? AND we all agree even if we don't buy one ,it did good!

[J.R. Rutter]

Supposedly, there is some sort of data logger inside that has a record of the conditions that caused it to fire.