Originally Posted by
Steve Mathews
I was 100% convinced of buying a Sawstop to replace my current cabinet saw. After viewing the following video I'm now 98% convinced. I was originally led to believe that the Sawstop blade would stop before any flesh was cut. Apparently that is not always the case. But on the plus side the guy in the video didn't lose the thumb.
SawStop has been careful in their advertising to state the difference between a SawStop accident and a non-SawStop accident. They show a finger with a scratch and a finger missing.
There's no way to know that your hand got into the blade except for your hand touching the blade. What SawStop does is detect that your {finger,hand,arm,whatever} touched the blade and stop the blade before it can do serious damage to you. My hand came in contact with a SawStop blade and I had a scratch on my thumb. Put a bandaid on it and a new blade and brake on the saw.
Well worth the cost of a new blade and brake when I think that I could have lost my thumb.
Mike
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