Cutlery
Kill All the White People
- 8,185
- 26,071
Woodworking
- Thread starter Intrinsic
- Start date
Siliconemelons
Ssraeszha Raider
- 14,994
- 24,227
Oh friends I have touched a table saw blade… ofc doing something wrong and dumb… it was…not fun. I am lucky I have my fingers.
Cutlery
Kill All the White People
- 8,185
- 26,071
After careful reflection and examination of the situation, the product, and the results, I have come to the conclusion that this is what happened.
His piece of wood looks almost exactly the same as mine.
This new saw is a Craftsman 315. Apparently it comes with a splitter and a blade guard, but they were so horrible that most people took them off and never put them on again. This one is no exception.
Now I've been using table saws for a long while 10 years as an adult, and I learned on one of these when I was a kid. I honestly don't remember whether my dad had the splitter on there or not, but I've obviously had a riving knife and pawls the entire time I've been an adult. So, really, I thought I knew what i was doing because I had modern safety equipment the whole time, and I got complacent.
So, looks like the cut was done, it wandered away from the fence, and it kicked both pieces back. I was using a push stick - the mark on my arm is not blade contact, even though the above picture makes it appear so. I caught that piece right in the push stick arm as it was thrown back. I'm really happy it was that piece too - the other piece also got kicked and hit something (unsure what) and it fucking snapped in half, and it was an inch and a half thick piece of walnut.
I'm sure I'm gonna figure out what it hit at some point in the garage. But anyway, ordered a shark guard splitter and pawls for it, they'll be here next week. Saw is in quarantine until then.
- 1
Lanx
<Prior Amod>
- 76,641
- 180,834
Cutlery
Kill All the White People
- 8,185
- 26,071
I figured that. The arbor is metric. Belt driven saws with cast iron tops are still superior to the bullshit I had.
Cutlery
Kill All the White People
- 8,185
- 26,071
I don't use any of mine because it's impossible to see where you're cutting. Never had a problem.
This was 100% the problem of not having a riving knife.
- 3
Siliconemelons
Ssraeszha Raider
- 14,994
- 24,227
Small pieces of wood are dangerous on table saws-- that is what mine was... I was also being very dumb, but it was kickback, it twisted, hit the fence then shot out away from me as I was pressing down (yes...) with my thumb, pointer and middle - that then the pointer and middle found themselves into the blade..., it was merely flesh chunks and nail - it could have been way worse lol... Didnt I post pictures? I should find them again heh
Cutlery
Kill All the White People
- 8,185
- 26,071
I imagine your thumb probably just looked like your avatar. No pictures required.
- 2
Siliconemelons
Ssraeszha Raider
- 14,994
- 24,227
Thumb barely got any, it was mostly pointer, then a bit of middle - its mostly the side/tip - can barely tell now, the biggest part healed up a bit dented and there is a "scar" that is just a lighter color stripe on the finger.
Kalaar kururuc
Grumpy old man
- 621
- 616
When I worked in Dubai, we had a table saw in the workshop. One of the Egyptian guys mentioned that his brother was a wuss when it came to blood, so anyway we mixed up some paint and put it all over the blade and spun up the saw so we had a nice spray pattern on the wall, then his other brother (yes, there were three of them, lovely guys but nutjobs) called in the wuss. I've never seen anyone faint so fast in my life. He was not happy when he came around, but his brothers thought it was hysterical.
- 1