re: SawStop Demonstrations Don't Impress Me

David – We never thought of, or figured that the glove would resist as it did. We were not even aware that it did until I was able to play back the footage in slow-motion in my computer.

When I told Roger and hew watched the footage, he said that if he did it again he would put a dowel into the hotdog to hold it’s position better.

In the end, even though the hotdog is flimsy and bent backward, the test still satisfied me enough. Once the blade gets through the glove and makes contact, it works as advertised.

I brought the glove from my shop and provided it to them. It was the exact same type of glove a good friend of mine was wearing when he got his fingers cut off.

The blade grabbed the glove and dragged his hand in doing catastrophic damage. The doubts that I had about the SawStop were genuine and my doubt was further perpetuated by the fact that the demonstrators would always deny my request.