Well check out this BCTW new thingamagadget

[Doug Shepard]

Interesting looking setup
http://www.bridgecitytools.com/Produ...Jointmaker+Pro
Doesn't have a price listed yet, but it's BCTW so $Kaching$

[Peter Quinn]

Now that is cool...but how much?

[Mike SoRelle]

That looks really really really cool though....

Besides, it's not festool, how much could it be?

[Ron Dunn]

That is CLEVER!

I've spend countless hours musing over how I could turn a Nobex (or similar) mitre saw into something that could cut repeatable dovetails, for example, and never solved the problem.

Here's an idea that probably does all that and more.

Can't wait to see the price

[Bruce Page]

Very clever.

[Carl Fox]

Very cool. However, can you imagine the injuries? I say this because the demo shows him using is hands, instead of a clamp.

You seem to have to push the workpiece down, against the fence, and toward the blade. With something like that one little slip and owwie.

With a TS or BS the blade does the work, so I can plan out push sticks, clamps, etc.

I dunno, I kind of a clutz.

[Mike SoRelle]

Very cool. However, can you imagine the injuries? I say this because the demo shows him using is hands, instead of a clamp.

You seem to have to push the workpiece down, against the fence, and toward the blade. With something like that one little slip and owwie.

With a TS or BS the blade does the work, so I can plan out push sticks, clamps, etc.

I dunno, I kind of a clutz.

Well the difference is how hard are you going to push when it's totally under your control how much you cut yourself against an inanimate object?

That said, this might be the perfect tool for the emo woodworker

The TS, BS, etc doesn't even know our pitifuly soft flesh is there (with the exception of the sawstop of course)

[Dave Lehnert]

I will hold off for the Shop Notes version LOL!!!!

[Ron Dunn]

Looks like it will cost around $1000.

Review here:

http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/...maker+Pro.aspx

I still want one

[Richard M. Wolfe]

Within 30 seconds of having it set up, I would:

1. Slice my finger halfway off (and I bet there's a lot of that done - one good push with your finger in the wrong place and the cut might not be as ragged as a table saw but I can see being about as deep).

2. Try to cut a nail embedded in a board (with a carbide tipped blade I can usually get by with one or two)

3. Drop something heavy and made out of metal on it. (been there, done that)

[Doug Shepard]

Looks like it will cost around $1000.
...

I still want one

And that's just the INTRO price according to the review. I knew it wouldn't be cheap. My Nobex might just be getting outsourced.

Very clever.

Folks, that sound you just heard was Bruce running out to his milling machine. trying to figure out how to make one of his own.

[Larry Browning]

That is really cool! However, It is priced WAY too high. I would pay maybe $200 for it. Maybe I'm just cheap, but I don't see $1000 for a saw clamp
This just reeks of knockoffs in a few years. I can also see a finish carpenter finding this very useful for trim work.

[Bill Huber]

That is cool and looks really neat. It always gets me how someone can come up with these new tools.

Now I do see a problem right off, there is no DC port and I don't see a power cord on it, and we all know if there is no power cord then what good is it....

[Dave Norris]

It doesn't look like they cut anything very thick with it, although I didn't get to see the demo the whole way through...

[Amy Leigh Baker]

Shouldn't this thread be over in Neanderthal