Worm Drive Saw Users on West Coast USA?

Gimme a break. If they only want the opinions of west coast woodworkers its a marketing ploy aimed at west coast woodworkers. How much are they paying you to collect e-mail addresses?

Zeke Change com to net for e-mail

Zeke asks:

Probably the reason is simple: Gear drive circular saws are about 75 times more popular on the Left Coast than anywhere else. No idea why, but that's been a truism for many years. I remember my first wife's cousin showing up in Dutchess County NY, back some 30+ years ago, with the second such saw I'd ever seen.

Charlie Self "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun

Well, if their interest was really to "help improve the quality and functionality of the next generation of worm drive saws" they should be interested in you first wife's cousin's input. Even if he was the only guy in NY who owned one. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but these saws are very popular in the construction industry here in S. Fl. To target a survey like this to any particular area makes it seem more likely the work of a dealer looking for customers. Just my opinion of course.

Zeke Change com to net for e-mail

And you may be correct. But they may also be trying to work efficiently. No idea how they're distributing the survey, but it's probably simpler to confine it to a geographical area in which they know a lot of people are using the saw.

If they want Pete, they'd have to get back to him in CA. He stayed in NY just long enough to do the job he was hired to do, and headed back to Marin County.

Charlie Self "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun

He wasn't. It was just over thirty years ago that I bought mine to restore my first home (On Vassar Road in Poughkeepsie - also in Dutchess County). The saw is still in use and going strong. Interestingly, it seems to do a little better job every year (and has been performing much better in IA than it ever did in NY 8^)

Morris Dovey responds:

At that point in my life, I'd seen damned little carpentry work outside of downstate NY and the Rhinebeck/Clinton Township area, so I'd seen one other such saw, though it probably wasn't yours, as I first saw one sometime in the mid-'60s down in Westchester. IIRC, a guy in Amawalk, not far from where my mother lived then, had it.

Charlie Self "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun

For what it's worth, I certainly would not have posted the request if it was solely for customer hunting purposes. The request was made on behalf of a manufacturer who is generally interested in provided unique, usable features in their upcoming production of worm drive saw models.

I can understand your concern of course. I probably would have initially thought the same if I was on the other end :)

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So, Dean....

Who is the manufacturer?