After four years of promoting a clever safety device and failing to license it to power-tool makers, a small engineering team in Wilsonville, Ore., is entering the manufacturing business. It will ...

We’ve all seen finger joints or box joints, those interlocking puzzle pieces that make laser-cut plywood enclosures such a fixture for DIY projects. But laser cutters make finger joints look much ...

Oregon company makes ‘smart’ saws that can tell the difference between wood and hands CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A small Oregon company is changing woodworking professionals’ jobs with a table ...

A longer version of this story appears at FairWarning. Gerald Wheeler caught the hot dog demonstration at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta in 2002. A man took an Oscar Meyer wiener and ...

Here’s an attention-grabbing headline from The New York Times: “How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger?” At first I assumed this was a story about the latest GOP fundraising ...

It's unclear whether the Consumer Product Safety Commission will finally pass a rule requiring all new saws to have an active injury prevention... Despite Proven Technology, Attempts To Make Table ...

(Reuters) - A proposal to require U.S. table saw manufacturers to exclusively use one company's patented finger detection technology should be dropped along with more than 170 other regulations that ...

House Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) posted a video to X on Wednesday explaining why she’s opposing a rule that would mandate finger-detection technology for table-saws, which could ...

Losing a finger to a table saw sounds like a living nightmare, but it happens all the time (as often as 10 times a day). So inventor and amateur woodworker Steve Gass came up with a safety mechanism ...