British Masters? Pah! The Guild of Master Craftsmen isn't a properly regulated trade body at all and therefore their pronouncements on anything aren't worth a bean. They don't issue qualifications nor do they adequately vet their members. As most of us in the UK are aware it is merely an advertising vehicle for tradesmen which sets no standards and regulates nothing. Period.Niki":3k654min said:
The professional bodies in the UK are the City & Guilds, Construction Industry Training Board, the Institute of Wood Machining and several Worshipful Companies in the City of London. None of them are involved in commercial publishing and you'll find the only two who have books written for their courses, the C&G and CTITB. They are extremely careful to ensure that publications used in their training schemes incorporate practice which is both safe and legal. This jig used without adequate guarding is neither.
This is not Stalinist Russia and there is very little censorship of books here. So books don't get banned. So it is still possible to purchase "Das Kapital", "Mein Kampf" and "Satanic Verses" here, although few actually choose to do so. As to the information contained within books on woodworking, an example might be one of the best books ever written on spindle moulder practice by Eric Stephenson, called "The Spindle Moulder Handbook". The original book is now out of date (mainly in the area of tooling) but it still serves a useful purpose as the fundamentals of guarding, safe workholding and machine practice are still the same - they don't change that much. The principle that you guard a blade or cutter is pretty much accepted as a norm for safe working. Why can't you accept that?Niki":3k654min said:
The problem comes when books from the USA in particular are published in the UK because of the language similarity. US practice in many areas lags well behind the EU and US publishers seem to take scant notice of safety whilst reputable publishers here, such as Stobart Davis actually do make an effort to ensure that their publications reflect safe working practice, something which the British magazines also seem to do to a greater or lesser extent.
The law doesn't tell him no, unless he is a professional, in which case he is guided to examine safe working practice, which is not the safe as an absolute "No". May I point out here that many of Wearings books were originally published in the 1970s or early 1980s and don't appear to have been updated since then. What passed as acceptable back then then, such as stacked dado heads on table saws (and even then guarding was required in commercial establishments) is now, in the light of experience, regarded as unsafe. But having got a number of Wearing's books I do know that he neither advises in favour of or against the use of guards - the decision is left to the reader as to whether or not it is "common sense" to omit guarding. Wearing taught woodworking, and what I can tell you that if you had attempted to use a table saw sans crown guard in a training workshop even back then in the 1970s that you'd have been stopped from doing so. The use of guarding is hardly new. So I say again. What makes you, by your own admission an untrained amateur of limited experience, able to so categorically naysay what is regarded as safe practice by training bodies across the EU, that for the sake of safety blades and cutters should be guarded?Niki":3k654min said:
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....I even "advertised" you on other forum and titled you as "Accidents investigator" and you could see on my posts that the guard is installed (and believe me, not only for the pics) because, when I said for UFO's, I meant also flying carbide tips. But, I have some "perversions" sometime...
