Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard for Table Saws & Router Tables

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $22.10

Features:

• Two multipurpose featherboards for holding the stock against the guide fence
• Unique miter gauge slot allows quick removal; perfect for router tables, shapers, band saws, and table saws
• Easy set-up feature; reduces kickback, binding, lifting, and bent blades
• High tech polymer ensures it will maintain its original shape
• Advanced design means no marring to your workpiece

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Customer Reviews:

useful when third hand not availbe [Posted on 2008-01-18]
Sometimes a piece is critical when it comes to the cut. The feather-lock keeps you piece secure against the fence as promised. I use this both for table and router saws. It leaves both hand available for feeding the piece. That way you can not only guide the piece better, but you can continuously feed it in order to avoid burning the wood (it matters when you expect to have an exposed edge but don't really need to plane it and also when you need the surface unburnished in order for glues to hold properly). For a lot of table saw work, the bench dog is overkill and is a loss of time.

Make sure to double check that the lock will hold. Sometimes it can seem to have locked correctly and then it'll slip when the pieces are fed through the saw. Took me a little while to get used to. I don't have that problem anymore.

Very useful! [Posted on 2008-03-09]
My dad got these for his woodworking shop! He liked them so much, he bought more in different sizes!

Essential tool for clean cuts [Posted on 2008-03-30]
I received these featherboards as a promotional item when I purchased a Bench Dog router table. As an accessory item they are invaluable when milling long, thin work pieces. In my situation I was fabricating rails and stiles for raised panel doors. If consistent even pressure is not applied when running the piece through the router bit, the end result could be an uneven cut, or worse, a ruined piece. I highly recommend that you consider using featherboards any time they can be employed. The design of this product makes it fairly easy to do so.
I also found that if you bring the featherboard against the work piece and tighten the trailing end, then roll it forward to create a slight deflection in the fingers, you will achieve the optimum amount of pressure. Additionally, if you want to mount these in the 3/4" miter slot of your table saw, you will need the Bench Dog 10-012 Miter Slot Adapter. Overall this is a well made product and a valuable addition to my work shop.

Buy another featherboard that has two hold downs in parallel slots!!!! [Posted on 2008-05-13]
These featherboards looked good so I bought. In use they are hard to adjust because the slots are not parallel and the bolts bind. Because the slots get closer as you move the fingers closer to the blade, the featherboard has more leverage on it and is not that stable. They should have kept the slots parallel

Also, featherboards only work when the fingertips are parallel to the fence and these are hard to adjust.

The other problem is only one of the bolt knobs actually cause the miter track to expand to hold the featherboard in!! This is the biggest problem. The other bolt only pulls the orange plastic down to the track but does not expand in the slot. So there is always some rotational play in the featherboard.

The bottom line is-- this is an expensive featherboard with two insurmontable problems, so keep looking.

Poor quality and a short life. [Posted on 2008-08-25]
I purchased one of these on amazon a while ago. Initially, it was great. But as others have noted, they are not well made. They do strip out after some use, making them worthless. I did not use this often, so its not like it was heavily used - or abused. This is in a rarely used hobby shop, so saw very little action. These would last a week in a shop where they were used with any regularity. There has to be a better quality featherboard out there. I would not recommend this one - not even for a very light duty shop.

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