You know, I've watched an awful lot of YT videos --Stumpy Nubs, Wood Whisperer, Steve Ramsey Spencely(sp?), etc-- dozens of these guys and very few of them (it seems) use the guard.
There is a riving knife/splitter but no guard.
Sometimes they say they remove the guard so that the viewer can see what the person is actually doing with the cut (Like a cut with a tenon jig) but most of the time they are just showing a speeded up cut of wood for what they are making-- the object being made the real reason for the video and not the cut itself as the focus.--- And the guard is not in place.
Now I'll be the first to say:
1) I'm the novice and and really do listen to that little voice, especially when it starts haranguing me
2) those guys are not novices (and quite a few are using SawStops, btw)
So, just wondering what would be the reason for so many of them not using a guard?
What percentage here use riving knives/splitters but not a guard? (meaning, when a guard can be used)
Last edited by Patty Hann; 03-06-2023 at 8:19 PM.
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