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Rant: A guy at the lumber yard said he never checks his blade height for shallow cuts, and it bugs me
I was picking up some 1/2 inch plywood at a yard in Boise last Friday and overheard an older guy bragging to the kid at the counter that he never bothers checking blade height on his table saw for shallow cuts. He said he just eyeballs it because 'a quarter inch is a quarter inch.' I bit my tongue but it stuck with me all weekend. I run a small shop doing built-ins and cabinet boxes, and I've had two kickback close calls in 12 years, both from rushing a setup. A blade sticking up even 1/8 inch too high on a thin rip is asking for trouble, especially on 3/4 stock that wants to pinch. I keep a block of scrap cut to exactly 1/4 inch that I set next to the blade before every cut, takes me maybe 4 seconds. I get that speed matters when you're doing production, but 4 seconds versus a trip to urgent care seems like a bad trade. Has anyone else run into this old school 'feel it out' thing, or is it just a Boise yard problem?
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grant47811d ago
Watched a buddy do that and lose a finger tip last year.
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