Woodworking for Mere Mortals had some great Microjig ads for a while until he ended the partnership

Gotta be a tie between the Caribbean, Bermuda, and Alaska

High school: Physics or Calculus. Loved Newtonian physics, and I was always good at advanced math (sucked at basic arithmetic for some reason, always got bored and skipped steps)

College: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, or Fluid Dynamics. Combination of advanced math and physics, always really cool to me. Differential equations was a close fourth.

I liked my moral and ethical philosophy class, up until the professor started evangelizing to us about religion, which kinda ruined it for me

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I have the 52" extension and a roller stand that I put on the left side. Typically just yeet it off the edge tho.

To be fair, I’m typically not ripping a full sheet, usually cross cutting the 4’ side. The last few inches are a bit dicey still, but still preferable to a circular saw and messing around with clamping a straight edge. I’ll probably still get a track saw eventually

Probably the SawStop cabinet saw I bought a few weeks ago. It’s way easier/less sketchy than my job site table saw when cutting large panels, and the peace of mind it gives me from a general safety perspective is priceless. I have been doing a lot of projects with full sheets of plywood since I bought it, which has been an aspect of woodworking that I dreaded before. No more crawling around with a circular saw or precariously balancing between a job site saw and an extra table

I’m a project manager, so kind of a mixed bag. Some things will go off without a hitch, maybe even faster. Others will fall to pieces from a logistics and budgetary aspect. Loads of toilets will be gold plated and encrusted in diamonds

Possible to do solo with the right tools/enough muscle and stubbornness, much easier with 2 people

Gaming, listening to emo music, thinking engineering is cool as shit, willing to do a boring job to make more money than I can in engineering (project management)

Lol can’t say I recommend either experience. As far as power tool injuries go, scroll saw is probably the best one to do it on. I think it was completely healed in a few days, but basically just a shallow cut. Be careful, don’t get complacent, and you should be able to avoid major injuries!

Any power tool can hurt you. I had a piece of maple kickback and explode on a miter saw, which I didn’t even know was possible.

Luckily, the only actual injury I’ve gotten while woodworking was on a scroll saw, which is basically just a sewing machine with a small saw blade. Piece of wood pinched around the blade and jerked up, took the back of my finger against the blade. Minimal damage, but it bled like a stuck pig for a bit

It’s super cool from an engineering standpoint! And I’m rather attached to my fingers, I’d like it to stay that way. Until I got a shaper, I would say the job site table saw I have was the most dangerous tool in my shop. That shaper scares the shit out of me. Just from a volume and complacency standpoint, I’m still more likely to have an accident on the table saw than any other tool, but that shaper can and will eat your entire hand.

Really cool video, thanks for sharing! The high speed test makes me feel even better about this purchase!

Thanks!

and don’t chop your finger off pls

I’ll try! Been successful for 6 years now, but accidents happen, which is why I wanted this one!

Definitely Iron Man

Life is like a box of shit?

Plants crave them!

Bought a nice Sawstop table saw that I’ve been eyeing for years. I make good money, but have issues spending anything on myself. According to my therapist, it’s from a fear of catastrophe. Even though I’m extremely frugal, make good money, and am in a better position than the vast majority of people my age, there’s a constant voice in the back of my head telling me that I don’t need whatever it is that I want to get for myself.

In moderation, that’s a good thing, but I’ve taken it to a pretty far extreme. It legitimately stresses me out to buy something for myself that costs more than $15-20, even if I can afford it. I talked to my therapist about it, mentioned the table saw, and he suggested that I buy it. I talked to my wife about it, and she talked me into it, and I finally bit the bullet and did it. Definitely a luxury, but it’s cheaper than a hospital visit to sew a finger back on.

However, I do not recommend moving it solo to prove a point. 450lbs is not light

You’re not wrong

2,732 hours in Rust. I’m not proud of it

Morrowind has my favorite overall soundtrack, but Halo 3’s One Final Effort is the best video game music ever written. Cool piano rendition of One Final Effort and Halo’s main theme