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...wasn't just thumb luck. The Cabinet Door Shop is one of 1,800 companies that use a new kind of power saw, the SawStop, that is designed to stop as soon as the blade makes contact with flesh. Its inventor, Steve Gass, an amateur woodworker and patent attorney with a Ph.D. in physics, came up with the idea in 1999. Says Gass: "I was tinkering around in my shop and looked over at my saw and thought, I wonder, if you ran your hand under the blade, if you could stop it quick enough, then you wouldn...
...Gass started his experiments by running a small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
Over the next two years, Gass got the same response from every other major power-tool company. He was stunned. "Everybody in woodworking knows someone who's lost a finger or had an accident," says Gass. "I felt this technology should really be out there." He and two other lawyers from his firm launched SawStop in 2001, setting up shop in his barn and contracting with a manufacturer in Taiwan to build the devices. With about $5 million in sales, 16 employees and nearly 50 reports from customers of undetached digits, SawStop is thriving...
Senior tailbacks Steve Silva, Gideon Akande, and freshman Terrance Gass have already accumulated 351 yards on the ground and eight touchdowns among them...
Bajin and classmate Liz Gass were the team’s only juniors or seniors, meaning that five of the mainstays in the Crimson lineup this season could be playing for the next two years, and the team could attain an even higher level of achievement next season...