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Steve Gass, inventor of the Saw Stop system, was quoted in an interview with FineWoodWorking.com as saying “a person should not be cut more than 1/8th of an inch deep when contacting or approaching the blade at a speed of one foot per second”. The system that he developed out preforms this standard by far. Steve Gass is making an evaluation claim overall because he is stating that although his saws cost more than the average, they are well worth it in the long run. As Gass has said a trip to the emergency room can run well into the thousands of dollars and he claims that the extra few hundred bucks for his type of saw would be well worth it in retrospect. This claim is accurate because Gass has lab testing and video to back up the claim. The claim is very resonable because there isnt much argument to the statement “a finger is worth a few hundred dollars”. Also the nature of this claim is very persuasive due to the fact that it concerns a debilitating injury which anyone in the field of woodworking seeks to avoid.
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Counterintuitivity 
Punctuation note: . . . one foot per second.”
(This is Rule 7 from Grammar Basics. http://rucomp1.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/grammar-minimum-requirements/ available in the sidebar.)
Spelling note: outperforms
Not to be too technical, but in the test Gass conducted on his own finger, he was moving much more slowly than one foot per second. Moving faster, he might have gotten a deeper nick.
Gass may certainly feel his saw is worth the money, but he says no such thing in the statement you quote. You could say, if you like, that he makes an unspoken claim that saw operators are often injured while their hands are moving at one foot per second, but you can’t judge is position on saw cost from what you’ve shown us here.
As for the relative cost of the saw and the treatment, you’re making an insurance premium claim here. To evaluate it, you might have to compare the saw cost premium to the cost of a general accident policy. I might actually make a million dollars for the loss of my hand with such a policy. (Probably not the sort of argument you want to be making.)
Far too many claims defended (reasonably) here, Bill, that don’t appear in the quote.
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