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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...