Ben Blatt is a reporter for The Upshot and an amateur woodworker who once received stitches for a band saw injury. What’s it worth to you to minimize the risk of cutting off a finger? $300? $600?

Table saws are great at ripping through wood, but the power tools can also cause serious injuries, sending upwards of 40,000 people to emergency rooms each year. More than 3,000 of those people -- ...

Table saws can make working with wood a breeze. They can also take fingers off the unwary in the blink of an eye. To help avoid the latter, Bosch has come up with its Reaxx portable jobsite table saw, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The risk of injury from a table saw is always present, even for experienced builders and woodworkers, and last year Bosch announced a jobsite table saw with flesh-detecting technology. The Bosch Reaxx ...

Oregon company makes ‘smart’ saws that can tell the difference between wood and hands CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A small Oregon company is changing woodworking professionals’ jobs with a table ...

One day, Dr. Stephen Gass, an avid recreational woodworker and cabinet maker, was using his table saw when his training as a physicist and years of patent-law practice kicked in. He started to think ...

A machine that reliably rips boards with accuracy and precision is worth the investment.