re: Dangerous home shop tools

I grew up working in my grandad’s shop from as early as I can remember. He taught me how to turn a baseball bat on a shopsmith at around nine because I saw an old rerun of “The Natural” and he happened to have a blown down tree on his place. It was red oak and easily the heaviest bat I’ve ever swung so it was never used for anything other than the lessons learned and the memory of hanging with granddad. Also I’d like to point out that I still have all my fingers. Tools like anything else can be dangerous but the operator is easily the most dangerous thing in a shop or on a jobsite because most injuries aren’t from a faulty tool but operator error.