Working as a Pattern Maker in advanced woodworking shops for 45 years I was always safety conscious and never had a serious accident. Then came retirement and this hobby of building a strip kayak and I lost the tip of my thumb in my circular saw a 1 ½ years ago. I was still being careful but not as much as I could have been. I had a wooden table saw insert in my Craftsman table saw with a nail in it as a strip spreader and the strip jammed at that point. I was watching my right hand fix the problem while my left hand drifted back into the blade. I couldn’t believe this happened to careful me. Then after the fact I took the time to build Rob Mack’s feathering system he had in an illustration. Had I done this in the first place I would still have a thumb print.

John in IN