I’m not a fan of Sawstop, mostly because they selfishly don’t share their patent. It’s simply corporate greed. Why shouldn’t this be a required standard feature on all saws. I’m not saying they can’t benefit from sales of all saws with this feature either. I believe if they got royalties from everyone who are making saws those proceeds would make up for any loss in sales. Years from now after patent expires, all saws will have a similar feature. We’ll look back and say, wow I can’t believe our fathers were working with such dangerous equipment.
The saw is superior without the proprietary safety features. Unfortunately the SS feature was better executed by Bosch who did the same thing without wasting the blade. But again corporate greed outweighs use of a better safety feature.
To be clear, take away the Sawstop feature and compare to other saws. Sawstop still comes out as one of the best choices there are. I just think they are irresponsible for not allowing all saws to be safer because they are putting profit before safety.