Interesting question....
As a matter of fact, I've scored my left index finger with my japanese pull saw a few days ago. Nothing serious, but annoying nonetheless.
WHY didn't SawStop advertise the availability of the aforementioned technology to
- the manufacturer of this pullsaw
- the shop owner
- the sales person and (even worse)
- the buyer (that would be me) of this hideously dangerous piece of equipment?
Think of all the dangers I've been exposed to in the couple of months I've owned this ridiculous apparatus. It has NO safetyrelated features whatsoever !!! ( apart from the flimsy plastic scabbard, that is... )
The fact that I still own most of my extremities might be considered pure luck, seeing I do work with wood, and use saws a lot.
As SawStop ( being a professional manufacturer of woodsawing equipment ) should know their market and their competition, it's highly unlikely that they were not aware of the availability of these unsafe saws.
Even if they're not obliged to feed information to the competition, one could argue that the failure to properly inform the prospective buyer of any "unsafe" sawing device is a serious omission towards the saw-user "at large".
Had I been properly informed at the time, I might(!) have chosen the Sawstop cabinet saw, instead of the japanese pullsaw... However, this choice was made impossible , since I wasn't properly informed.
The result of this inadequacy is very clear : I scored my finger ! Blood was spilled ! And it can all be traced back to me being inadequately informed - by SawStop that is.
As things go, I don't hold a grudge - that's just not me. And as long as SawStop acknowledges it's mistake, I'm willing to leave this be and get on with my woodworking life. To compensate for my injuries ( the psychological one being the worst by far ! ) I'm willing to settle for a Sawstop cabinet saw ( 220V please, for I live in Europe ) and a small sum of ( say ) $ 15.000 - seeing that it's only 1% of a recently awarded claim, I feel I'm quite modest here...
With all due respect,
Job