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A spinning blade you feed with your hands and hope for the best.
means A woodworking machine with a circular blade poking up through a flat table, which you slide lumber across to make straight, fast cuts.
from A plain compound of two old workhorse words. "Table" comes through Old French from Latin "tabula," a board or plank — fittingly, the same root that gives us the flat surface you'd eat or saw upon. "Saw" is solidly Germanic, from Old English "sagu," tied to a root meaning "to cut" (a distant cousin of Latin "secare," to cut, which also gives us "section"). The pairing simply names the thing literally: a saw built into a table. The machine itself emerged with industrial woodworking, the name following the obvious logic of describing what you see.
- kickback speed
- Wood launches back at over 100 mph
- riving knife
- A tiny fin that prevents most maimings
- flesh sensor
- SawStop stops the blade in five milliseconds
- er injuries
- Roughly 30,000 American hand wounds yearly
- original use
- Invented by a Shaker woman around 1810
sawstop cabinet saw — patented 1999 by steve gass, stops blade in 5 milliseconds when contact detected
dewalt dwe7491rs — most popular contractor-grade portable table saw in north america since 2010
sawstop pcs52 — pro cabinet saw with flesh-detection technology, $4,000+ price point