{"id":1110,"date":"2006-01-29T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T06:12:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:12:35","slug":"sawstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/sawstop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since contributor Ryan Lewandowski apparently hasn&#8217;t used the following item personally, I can&#8217;t include it as a regular Cool Tool, but the online promotional video is so compelling, I encourage you to check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sawstop.com\/\">Sawstop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"3828\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/archives\/sawstop_video.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"213\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<p>The SawStop is a table (circular) saw that supposedly stops itself if you touch it with your finger. The video uses a hot dog as a finger substitute, which is marred by only a shallow nick before the saw arrests and retracts with a bang. According to the &#8220;how it works&#8221; section of the site, the safety system is electronically actuated by the capacitance of the human body. Since I have always felt uneasy using table saws, this innovation is of great personal interest. If anyone has used it, I&#8217;d love to hear about your experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since contributor Ryan Lewandowski apparently hasn&#8217;t used the following item personally, I can&#8217;t include it as a regular Cool Tool, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}