New YouToob recommendation for folks on here: Laura Kampf
I just discovered her the other day (through an AvE video).

Some things she has done that may be of interest:

Bike trailer:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1C5z_lGXvg[/video]

Cargo bike:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJJKcOxiFE[/video]

Tallbike:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZnGQiSbtQ[/video]

Screwdriver Handlebars:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6m0rNUmLk[/video]

She’s ace. Very clever.
I wish she’d bring the guides down on her bandsaw though 😯

Thanks for the tip. Now following.

One handed angle grinding!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guards on anything would be safer!
Table saw 😯
Band Saw 😯
Pillar drill 😯
Surprised she still has all her digits..

That bike trailer looks great turning left, right might not be so smooth. Good vid tho.

Guards on anything would be safer!

The comments on all the popular YouTube makers are always full of people wringing their hands about safety (see Colin Furze, DiResta, AvE, Matthias Wandel, April Wilkerson etc). 😀

I just kinda assume that people who use these machines every day are a little bit more comfortable with them than some of us home gamers 😉

That bike trailer looks great turning left, right might not be so smooth.

Lots of people said that in the comments of that video – but she says it has been fine. It does look a little tight on the clearance, but I’d guess my kid trailer isn’t too much more than that and it is okay.

Having had to do first aid on a guy who took the guard off our table saw, and having never had an accident on any of the machinery we have at work, I am wringing my hands with all of their digits.. 😉

Cool videos.

I’m never showing you lot my workshop 😀

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a guard on a table saw on YouTube.

Not sure if the American saws don’t have guards or if people just remove them. Often they don’t seem to have a Riving Knife either.

This should give you nightmares:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKWIZM9aI5Y[/video]

Too late Ben ,you have done,so we know 😉

I watch a lot of the maker channels…safety on some is a little worrying but i think it’s the problem when you get too comfortable. Searching for ‘table saw injuries’ and looking at the image results is a good way of resetting an over relaxed attitude to safety.

There are US practices that are common across the pond, but just not considered safe here…such as using dado blades.

Another recommendation…if you like knife/sword making which I think someone on here does, look at the ‘men at arms’ videos on the awe channel.

Think Norm.
Guards removed or set high to give the camera a better view ?.

Ive not ever understood why our US cousins dont use a riving knife.
Anyway, im also a designer and love these type of vids where folk problem solve and make their solution.

Guards removed or set high to give the camera a better view ?.

Don’t think so – I just did a bit of Googling and found this:

Unlike Americans, where we generally remove the guard the first time it gets in the way (and rarely put it back), the British tend to leave their guards in place, and find other ways to do things – making grooves in particular – rather than work with an exposed blade.

— Table Saws: Why the British Think We’re Crazy (Popular Woodworking Magazine, Jan 2013)

And some more background here:

Where Do Table Saw Safety Rules Come From?

I’m sure the op didn’t intend this as a heath & safety thread but… 😀

A place I used to work building narrowboats, we used to run the table saw without a riving knife and guard. I used to cut rectangular sections out of sheets of blockboard by lowering the blade and then raising it through the board. Not as dodgy as a lot of things you see being done but I’d avoid it now, especially as I teach.

The bandsaw guides need lowering not just for safety, but the more free blade you have, the more blade deflection and twist you get. It’s a funny situation where it seems harder to suggest that students do something because it’s safer and instead you need to emphasise the performance aspect more for them to take notice.

Not so keen on LK work but her videos are very well put together and I am sure it helps her market herself.

I too run my table saw without a guard but it is probably because I have very little room so it also ends up as a bench most of the time. Always lower the blade as much as possible and I never freehand cut, regular use of push sticks etc, always watch body position, plan the cuts do a dummy push though etc. Guards are the last step I. Safety not the first.

Not so keen on LK work

It’s a bit German and industrial/functional – but I think some of her stuff is really nice. e.g. her maple table, walnut table and coffee table

I am sure it helps her market herself.

From what she says in this Vlog, her market is now YouTube, not the final products. I think that’s probably similar to many of the other “celebrity” makers on YouTube.

Must take a lot of view to make a good living. Good luck to her I wish I had the balls to do something similar rather than spending 10 hours a day board out of my mind!

quality #shedporn

Must take a lot of view to make a good living.

Looks like Rockler have sponsored her too which will help.

She also mentions in one of her Vlogs that she went through multiple jobs and spent many years living in a caravan or her workshop. So she has certainly grafted for it.