Whether it's Tom Johnson (furniture restoration) or Ishitani (furniture maker) or Paul Sellers (hand-tool coach) or any YouTuber, sooner or later their content and techniques will become familiar, routine, and sometimes even repetitive to a viewer or follower. As long as social media revenue is not the reason why they make their content, they don't need to do any stupid thing to court viewership.
Well, I just found out the saw stop brake works. But why?
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luvmytoolz
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One bloke who really plays it up for the content, but does it in a really likable and brilliant way is This Old Tony.
His video's are just superb!
I had my saw activate a couple months ago. No idea why it did. I sent the brake to SawStop. They sent me a new brake and told me the activation was caused by a defective brake cartridge. I had a new 80 tooth blade in the saw at the time. I sent the blade to Quinn to be checked and sharpened. I believe one tooth was broken but otherwise the blade was fine.
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Years ago, that was their policy. Getting the cartridges back for analysis, from real-world conditions, was more valuable to them than the new cartridge itself. It's good to see that they are still doing it.
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I saw that video. In it, he says SawStop had agreed to sponsor the video. However, once they learned that he put his finger in the blade, they told him they were not going to sponsor that video. I'm sure SawStop and TTS does not want a rush of people shoving their fingers into the blade to "test it out". Estlea seemed genuinely disappointed and irritated about it.
You'd think that seeing some fool put his hand into a spinning table saw blade would go Mad Viral but after two weeks, that video only has 54K views - which may sound like a lot, but his previous video has nearly 450K views in one month - and many of his videos generate considerably more views than the SawStop one. I'm sure he's quite disappointed in the performance.
luvmytoolz
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@onocoffee I'm more than glad to see the clickbait didn't work out this time for Matt. I'm all for personal responsibility in life, but that was just wildly inappropriate to do and ultimately served absolutely no purpose.
Especially in these times where the kids just aren't exposed to the sheer amount of things we were that helped shape our ideas of what's safe and what's not, that sort of thing doesn't help anyone.
Especially in these times where the kids just aren't exposed to the sheer amount of things we were that helped shape our ideas of what's safe and what's not, that sort of thing doesn't help anyone.
Inevitably at some time there will be a failure for a Sawstop module to malfunction and not stop the blade. Last thing a manufacturer needs is to have someone try this stunt and get hurt. The injured attorney's would gladly, and with open wallets, introduce into evidence this type of video along with any sort of contract / agreement which showed compensation for it which would condone in uncertain terms this type of behavior as acceptable. The payout to the injured would be in the 7 figures. When the owner of Sawstop did it, he probably would have been unable to sue his own company for any injury.
At some point in time in the future outlets like YouTube that show and promote viewership of these dangerous acts will get dragged into wrongful death lawsuits if they haven't been already.
Peter
At some point in time in the future outlets like YouTube that show and promote viewership of these dangerous acts will get dragged into wrongful death lawsuits if they haven't been already.
Peter
AI Overview says Google has been sued multiple times for dangerous and reckless contents. I've come across countless woodworking clips or segments that show unsafe practices from all over the world. It's a miracle that based on those vids, not many more fingers have been mained or lacerated or cut off for both hobbyists and production woodworkers.
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