Saving Our Skins

Is there a perfectly safe saw? The correct guards properly used will help to keep your tablesaw safe. A few simple safe operating procedures will help as well. Cleanliness and a good maintenance program will add more to your table or panel saw’s safety but even after all this, your machine still has a sawblade that will remove a finger before you even realise it’s gone. And it’s so easy to do; a momentary lapse in concentration can find even the most skilled woodworkers in trouble. Enter the SawStop technology that instantly stops the spinning sawblade if you are unlucky enough to touch it.

The Sawstop story

So how does it work? Firstly, there are now a number of parallel technologies, so we’ll