SawStop is here!

[Leon]

The latest.

Bringing'r in

Unpacking

Unwrapped

For you patent buffs

Setting in the hydraulic mobile base

The other stuff

A lot of cast iron inside there

The gears, notice the curved surface of the tilt rack to fit with the worm gear

Inside the left side of the saw door opening, lots more iron.

A reference for just how big those gears are. The worm gear is approximately 1-1/2" in diameter.

I got the industrial model and it weighs in at about 685 lbs with the 52 inch fence. Add 25lbs or so for the mobile base.

The mobile base is sweeeeeet. 3 pumps on the right front pedal and the saw is lifted up and all weight is transferred to the 4 corner wheels. tap the "lower" lever and the saw floats to rest on the floor releasing all weight from the wheels. This saw being about 200lbs heavier than my old Jet cabinet saw is much easier to move than the Jet 3 wheel mobile base and I thought that base was great. The new saw will almost roll out of the garage on its own when lifted up on the wheels.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Wow this thing is really well built with great attention to details. No sharp edges found yet.

Ill keep you posted as the saw and out feed comes together.

[Gramp's shop]

There's nothing like welcoming a new baby into the house. Congratulations!

Larry

[Sonny]

Pppffftt! You wasted your money. You ain't got enough lumber, back there, to do any decent sawing with.

*With the previous delays/miscues, incurred, did it come with a blade? :)

It all looks pretty darn sharp. Congrats, big time.

Sonny

[Greg Guarino]

Those saws are for hot dogs, aren't they?

[Leon]

No kidding, Thank you

[Leon]

do any decent sawing with.

LOL that was left over from the desk and airplane projects. The wall above that is totally filled with lumber. ;~)

[Leon]

Yeah! I gotta stock up on weeners.

[none]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:35:04 -0500, Leon

Speaking of various types of butchery, have you ever cut (or been tempted) to cut frozen meat of some type on your Laguna bandsaw? Is there such a thing as a butchers blade for a home bandsaw?

[none]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:01:50 -0500, Leon

What did the shipping guys say about the excited home owner snapping pictures of them?

[Greg Guarino]

and a cartridge for each, right?

[SonomaProducts.com]

Considering the lasting damage caused by my Jet 18" BS when I had a momentary laps and reached into a standard 3/4" blade, I don't think you need anything special to cut meat and bone efficiently.

[ChairMan]

Congrats but there is some down side to your purchase.

1.Some assembly required. 2.Now you have to go back to work

[none]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:21:47 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"

I have read about special blades for meat cutting. However, I don't know what kind of difference one would make compared to a woodworking blade.

I was also wondering if it was inadvisable to chance blood and gore (initally frozen" spread around the insides of a woodworking bandsaw?

[Doug Winterburn]

yes, a real mess - DAMHIKT

[woodchucker]

That's normal actually.

She looks beautiful. Enjoy..

[woodchucker]

laps and reached into a standard 3/4" blade, I don't think you need anything special to cut meat and bone efficiently.

Oh damnnnnnn.

[Sonny]

tempted) to cut frozen meat of some type on your Laguna bandsaw?

Leon would no doubt wait for his meat to thaw, and cut it normally. To war rant butchering with one's woodworking tool, one would need to be butcherin g volumes, not something just for dinner.

My brother had a grocery store with a fairly large butcher service. That b andsaw casing/framework was made of aluminum, daily washed/cleaned with a d isinfectant or clorox, etc. I don't know what the other working parts were made of, something more substantial than aluminum, no doubt.

I never looked closely at the blade, but once asked the butcher about it. It was specific for bone cutting, more so than for cutting the meat, itself . I would assume the blade was specific only for the meat specific saw.

Additionally: Bone is a calcium crystaline form, the same as coral (i.e., coral reef). A s a matter of fact, some bone implants are made from coral. Soft tissue an d newly forming bone tissue grows around, grows into and attaches to coral the same way as it does around existing bone, in the repairing body. A pie ce of implanted coral does not grow. The body lays down new bone/new calci um around it, as it lays down new bone/new calcium around a fractured bone.

I don't recall which ones, but some specific lumbers (from specific areas?) have crystaline forms that collect in the wood, as it grows. Seems I read , milling and/or sawing these lumbers, with wood cutting tools, requires mo re frequent sharpening of blades, compared to normal lumber.

I think it's yucca trees/plants, or some specie of the aloes, that produce crystaline forms in them, as they grow. Native folk, of those areas, use t he stalks for stropping their tools. It's reasonable to think cutting bone with a wood cutting blade would dull the blade faster than normal.

Sonny

[RonB]

I can only offer you the standard level of contempt regarding the purchase of a new toy: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you,I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you,I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hat e you,I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you,

Enjoy it!!! Any tool hitting my garage turns me into a 10 year old on Chri stmas morning.

RonB

[John Grossbohlin]

I recall a discussion I had with a professional butcher about 30 years ago while he was cutting up a deer for me. Regarding saws in butchering, they are intended for cutting bone only. I watched as he carefully cut the meat down to the bone with a knife and then cut the bone only on the bandsaw. He had a less than flattering term for guys butchering deer for money who cut up the meat and bone with a bandsaw... After having a venison dinner at a friend's home one time, where the meat was clearly sawn with bits of bone "dust" through out, I understood his position on the matter. It was nasty...!

I butcher my deer own now and bone it as the meat is removed from the hanging carcass. This saves freezer space and there is no need for sawing anything. I do, however, chop the skeleton off at the end of the rib cage with a hatchet once the meat is removed... this so it fits in the trash can.

A SawStop, by design, would be useless for this application.

John

[G. Ross]

Setting a new machine up is half the fun. Hope you get many hours and years of enjoyment in using it.