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Daniel's interest in woodworking began at an early age. His late father was a taleneted woodworker who created beautiful furniture pieces from the wood he cut on his own property. Daniel always enjoyed watching him work in the shop.
When Daniel moved cross country, he wanted to create pieces of furniture for his new home. From there he started looking for ways to join wood pieces together without using nails or screws to give it more of a natural feel. After searching for which joint would be best for his projects, he discovered that dowel joints would be a strong and sturdy method for joinery. However, he ran across one issue - with the dowels being parallel to one another, they had to be glued, clamped and then waited on until the glue dried before he could continue working on the rest of his piece. They also we're not as strong as he hoped.
That's when Daniel's idea of the Dowel Jig X came about. By creating an angled type dowel joint that would be stronger and more efficent to work with. It would allo a user to put two dowels in at different angles, preventing the parts from seperating.
We developed the versatile Massca Dowel Jig X to help you join two pieces of wood together in a new and sturdier way. Join together two piece of wood at an angle to create a superior dowel joint. Our jig gives you more control over every piece of wood, so you can feel proud of your finished efforts and have your project last a lifetime.
What makes this jig unique is that it creates angled joints instead of parallel joints, in comparison to a traditional dowel jig. By creating joints at opposing directions, this provides a work piece with extra strength and stability without having to use screws, nails, or complicated tools to get the job done. This is a quick and easy take on using dowels to make your project stronger than ever.
Jeremy has been in the carpentry field for 22 years. He began his journey with carpentry in highschool woodshop. From an early age, he had a passion for the trade and knew it was where he wanted to spend his time. After highschool, Jeremy went on to complete trade school and become an apprentence to a carpenter for 4 years, specializing in doors and trim.
During his time working in the trade, Jeremy discovered he enjoyed finding new solutions to making work quicker and more efficient. After working with his brother on a job, he noticed that he couldn't figure out how to keep a consistent reveal. The idea sparked to create a multitool to help his brother keep a consistent trim every time and from there, The Revealer was born.
Andy Browning from @boardathome123 purchased his M2 PRO Aluminum Pocket-Hole Jig System back in May 2021. He is an avid user of his newest joinery tool and loves its all metal construction. He enjoys using his Massca Pocket-Hole Jig in his workshop and for his newest woodworking projects. Andy knew he could make the Massca Pocket-Hole Jig that much better so he took his idea to the workshop. Click the video below to watch Andy's video introduction to his latest project on the Massca PHJ.
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So what do you folks think about Whirlwind? Could SawStop be shooting itself in the foot by trying to do more than simply sell a great product? With the little info we have, its hard to make a real judgement call here. But do you think an alternative technology is on its way? Could something like that spell the end of a tool company many folks have grown to love? I welcome your opinions, but I do ask that we keep the anti-SawStop and anti-government stuff to a minimum.
I am, by no means, an anti-SawStop individual. But I agree that, as woodworkers, we have a certain level of responsibility to ourselves and to each other to develop safe habits around our table saws, as well as our other woodworking tools and equipment. No guard or safety mechanism can ever replace common sense and a keen sense of awareness.
Having said that, SawStop is a brilliant company. They took what is considered to be one of the most dangerous tools in the shop and gave many potential woodworkers peace of mind. That most definitely increased the number of woodworkers here, and bred a new generation of tablesaw users. But this glorious epiphany is like any that dawns upon a brilliant mind. Once it is realized and put into production, it opens the door to competition.
Chuck, you are missing a very important detail. Yes the SS works in 1/5000 of a second versus the 1/8 of a second for the Whirlwind. However, Whirlwind does not require blade contact to stop the blade while the SS does. It could very well be a draw!
Sawstop advertises stop time less than 5 milliseconds. That is 0.005 second, not 1/5000 second (0.0002 second). I calculate that a 10 inch blade (5 inch tooth radius) will stop before the second tooth makes contact (depending on the number of teeth on the blade).
I am a retired contractor here in Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Years ago, I used to purchase, domestic and imported, hardwood lumber and paneling from a company here that had a home-made saw set-up
similar to what you describe.
They would place the boards or panel flat on the table and the traveling
table saw underneath would slide on the rails and make the cut.
Made for a very safe cut. That is the only one I have seen or heard of
until I read your description.
Drill press and high HP buffing wheel are likely the two most dangerous tools in the shop. They look pretty mundane and passive and the uninitiated tend to get careless around them. I know an experience knife maker was killed when the blade he was buffing was ripped from his hands and went around the buffer wheel and was flung straight at his head. The rest of the story is not pretty. I read about guy who bought a 1.5 hp 3400 rpm buffer. The knife he was working on caught up and was flung right through the wall of his shop and he found it bent up in a U shape on his lawn 20 feet from wall it busted through.
I have several friends that have lost fingers (or parts of fingers) in table saw accidents; one is a part-time contractor and the other is a former cabinet makers. So you?d think that since I can technically afford a Sawstop, I would have been a prime candidate to buy one last year when I wanted to replace my portable tablesaw. Alas, no. When selecting my perceived cost, I factored in that a hybrid table saw was safer than the portable saw that I was using (even with added weight it would tip and rock when ripping 2x4s), in addition to the fact that it was for my hobby. I bought the best (hybrid) table saw that I was willing to spend the money on. Would I buy a Sawstop? Conceptually, yes, but not at the moment given the prices. Others may have a different set of values when coming up with their own perceived cost.
I think this new product is great. Innovation is always welcome and added competition is always good for development of new ideas and for the consumer. I think ultimately this may affect SawStop slightly but they make a great saw even without the stop technology. They however will have to change and come up with new ideas if other products like this come out and possibly develop a product that does not destroy the blade and brake.
-It looks like the whirlwind stops the saw blade between 1/8 and 1 second. I believe the SS stops a lot faster. For situations where a hand or finger were to move very quickly into the path of the blade, I wonder if it would be possible to actually touch the blade and get seriously injured. At least with the SS the blade also retracts below the saw.
If what you write is true, it appears SawStop is trying to push its product in a passive-aggressive yet nefarious way. I do give them a fair amount of credit for using resources at hand to market their product through non-conventional means, but I also think using the Government to do so has a bad smell to it. That is not meant to grind an axe on either organization.
Still, if there are other systems out there with a smaller market share at the current time, I hope the legislation for table saw safety fosters competitors to present those alternative systems with a brighter spot light.
In the end, my hope is not for the success or failure of a particular flesh-detecting hardware company. Instead my hope is this will legislation will foster a great effort from each company to produce options for the consumer or end-user in the form of cost, comfort, usability, et cetera.
I then watched one of videos and learned they are try to appeal to the construction industry and quite frankly if the guys will use it may be a very good device in that capacity. The Ryobi lawsuit shows us how often standard blade guards are really used in construction on portable saws. I admit I tossed the guard on my cheap portable I use for flooring a general purpose long ago. Then again it was junk.
Hello woodworkers, I hope this message will clear up some points regarding Whirlwind Tool safety. I do not have, and likely never will have, any hardware to sell. Instead I hope to get the machinery manufacturers interested in Whirlwind as a win-win and I now have five operational prototypes and each new one is an improvement over the previous versions with still more designs cued up here in the shop. Of course the manufacturers will probably not move until my patents issue, but we are getting closer each day.
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