On January 27 of this year, the International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted a ban prohibiting the import of REAXX Jobsite Table Saws into the United States. A 60-day Presidential review period took effect that day, in which the ruling could have been overturned.

Then, on March 23, Bosch released a statement explaining that, based on the current ITC legal proceedings, it seemed imminent that Bosch would be required to stop sales of the REAXX^TM Table Saw on March 27, unless the ITC ruling was overturned.

“This sales hold will be in place until Bosch can clarify next steps through the ITC appeal process,” the release continued.

On March 28, SawStop issued a press release announcing that, effective immediately, the Presidential review period for the U.S. cease and desist order had expired, and the ITC order was in force.

Under those terms, the ITC order directs U.S. Customs to exclude Bosch REAXX table saws, and components for those saws, including cartridges, from entering the United States. Bosch must “cease and desist from conducting any of the following activities in the United States: importing, selling, marketing, advertising, distributing, transferring (except for exportation), and soliciting United States agents or distributors for imported [Reaxx] table saws and components thereof.” (ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-965)

Dr. Stephen Gass, SawStop’s president, had this to say about the cease and desist order: “We have defended our innovation, our hard work, and our investments in developing SawStop technology, and we will continue to protect our intellectual property. We are grateful for the U.S. patent system for encouraging and protecting innovations, and we look forward to continuing to supply the market with safer saws.”

Bosch maintains that development of its professional table saw product respects other companies’ patents and represents a new and unique technology in the construction market. The company also clarifies that distributors who have previously purchased REAXX table saws from Bosch are not impacted by the ITC order and can continue to market and sell REAXX table saws to end users.

Bosch reports that it will continue to provide distributors and end users with service/repair and support for REAXX table saws previously purchased, including the availability of replacement cartridges manufactured in the U.S., which are not subject to the ITC import ban.

“We will continue to fight for our ability to sell REAXX in the future by appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,” says Linda Beckmeyer, Bosch’s manager of media and public relations.

Woodworker’s Journal will provide ongoing updates about these proceedings as more information becomes available.

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With a long enough stick, you can even use the kit to mark window, door and outlet locations, etc., when measuring a room for built-in cabinetry. Or, use two indicators to check the diagonals of cases and drawers for square. Rockler’s Story Stick Kit (item 58376) comes without a dowel or T-track. It sells for $29.99.

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RYOBI’s 18V Palm Router (item P601) is available as a bare tool at Home Depot stores for $69.

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Rob Johnstone: My advice would be to allow the panels to float between the posts so they can expand and contract. If that is not practical, my next suggestion is to glue the panels to the plywood, but just with a bead of glue down the center of the panel. That way, the panels can expand and contract from the center out or in as they react to the changes in seasonal humidity. To be frank, you could probably get away with gluing the panels to the 3/4-in. plywood completely as there is enough stiffness in the plywood to resist wood movement. But the danger is that the face of the solid-wood panel that is not glued to the plywood would expand, and the back of the panel would be secured — which would cause the panel to cup across the grain. It might flex the plywood or even break the glue bond or delaminate a layer of the plywood. As a friend of mine likes to say, the only two things in life that are certain are death and wood movement.

Chris Marshall: I agree with Rob, Phil. Don’t tempt fate by completely gluing those panels to the plywood substrate. If there’s a lot of wiggle room between the rails, and you’re worried that the panels might slip out of position and be noticeably misaligned, then a little glue down the center is all you’d need to hold them in place without restricting their cross-grain movement. But, if it were me, I’d just make these frames snug enough to allow for some wood movement but not so tall or wide as to give the panels the ability to slip out of position to a significant degree.

Tim Inman: Remember these basic lessons: Lesson 1: WOOD MOVES. Lesson 2: You cannot stop wood from moving. Lesson 3: Forget lessons 1 and 2, and you are doomed for failure.

I would strongly recommend you NOT glue the panels to plywood, and instead allow for proper expansion and contraction via loose fitting between stiles and rails. Wood moves almost entirely across the grain. Very little movement is along the length of the grain. Wood moves mostly because of moisture exchanges, but it also moves due to temperature changes. I have seen many times when wooden panels were glued tight to backing boards. It is always amazing to me to see how the sturdy wooden backings are actually warped and distorted by the movement of the panels glued to them, or the panels have split and torn themselves apart. On the other hand, it is amazing to find really old furniture with floating panels that are strong and tight after decades and decades, provided they are allowed to do what wood does naturally: move.

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“Since retirement, my projects have also downsized. I took up woodcarving, woodburning and wooden model making. Problem now is what to do with all the carvings, etc. Hope to downsize our home soon and shop will shrink from 800 square feet to about 200.” – John van Veen

“I tend to get distracted from larger projects mainly because I have so much going on. The motorcycle needs work, spring yardwork, a magazine article I’m trying to write, yah know – stuff. Then ideas come into my head and that distracts me thinking about it when I’m doing something else.  And then there is the tedium that sometimes creeps in on the larger project.  I wish I was one of those people who see a project to the end before moving on. Sadly, I am not. I have a list of ideas, promised work and pipe dreams to last me to the end of my days. Excuse me. I have to go. There’s a squirrel in the birdfeeder.” – Lee Ohmart

“I have people request larger projects, but I opt for the smaller ones for several reasons. Number one) I do not have the room for a large hope chest so I either send them to one of my woodworking friends who does larger projects or I tell them the largest box I will build and allow them the option to have the smaller box or going to a friend who builds larger projects. Number two) I just do not care to tie that much money up in a larger project even if the people are paying me for my work aswell as the wood I put into the project they want. And number three) I have set up my shop and built my clamp stash and tools around the smaller projects. I do have a 10″ table saw, a 15″ planer, and a 17″ band saw to complement my 13″ band saw, but I use them all on the smaller projects. Time is really not a consideration as I may turn a peppermill in one day but the glue-up and finishing take a week or so due to the deep finish I put on my peppermills. Even my rectangular boxes and band saw boxes have a deep finish on them. We know how a poor finish can make a great project into a so-so project, so I try for the best finish possible, and that takes time.” – Charles Buster

For some, however, the smaller/shorter timeframe projects are not necessarily due to a conscious choice, but to circumstances out of the woodworker’s control. – Editor

“’Short attention span?’ Not purposely! I still have a lot of energy, and ambition. I know all the projects I want to do, and ‘how’ to do them. It’s just, my ability has diminished, about 50 percent, due to a loss of my lower right leg. The loss, comes from my lifestyle, and previous military involvement.

“Weird, though, that it has taken this long, 51 years, to creep up on me! Being over 68 or 69 years old, is not a good time to lose a leg! Too hard to learn how to walk again! And? No diapers for a cushion, to fall on! When the leg came off, (March 2014, and more taken off, April 2014), the VA asked me what I expected to achieve and do with a prosthetic? I said, ‘Everything I did, when I had two feet/legs!’ Well? With a prosthetic leg and foot, that, sounds easy to do! Not quite!

I’m still, manual wheelchair bound, in and around my house, shop and yard. Even with a prosthetic? It isn’t, really, easy as it may seem!

Although I do feel a little safer, using my 10″ full-size table saw, and my 10″ compound miter saw, standing on two feet, instead of one foot!  Getting to my wood projects, again, has taken time. I do a little here, a little there, etc. Losing my leg turned my whole world, upside down! Everything takes twice as long, and sometimes longer, to accomplish. This is where procrastination steps in! Someday!” – Robert. Clausen

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