r/woodworking • u/betarcher • Jan 23 '24
Safety It finally happened to me
I am a hobbyist who does occasional furniture and cabinetry work for word-of-mouth clients, and got this SawStop PCS for about 3 ago. I've had 2 accidental triggers; one on a nail I didn't know was there, and the other is still a mystery. Well, the other day I finally had a real trigger. I was batch-cutting walnut planks for the ceiling of my garage apartment (see photo of nearly finished product for reference). I moved from cutting operation to a rebate operation and forgot to set the new blade height. The blade triggered on my middle finger. Didn't even feel it, but I immediately realized what had happened. Looked at my finger, and the 2nd pic is all that I had to show for it; didn't even draw blood. Third pic is what the damage would have been. The height that the blade was at, it would have gone about 3/4 of the way through the thickness of both those fingers along that line.
It is so easy with batch-cutting to get into a rhythm, especially with a podcast going, and hundreds of cuts to do. Stay frosty my friends. The saw that my wife basically forced me to get has officially paid for itself several times over.
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u/allangee Jan 23 '24
Always nice to know you got your money's worth out of the SawStop. I've had two "incidents" so far... one with stitches, and one was too chewed up for stitches. Can still count to ten on my fingers though.