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Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard for Table Saws & Router Tables
Studio : Bench Dog
by Bench Dog
Brand : Bench Dog
Model : 40-011
Publisher : Bench Dog
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours and eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
EAN : 0658090110019
UPC : 658090110156
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 17 reviews)
List Price : $29.99
Our Price : $22.19
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Two multipurpose featherboards for holding the stock against the guide fence
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Unique miter gauge slot allows quick removal; perfect for router tables, shapers, band saws, and table saws
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Easy set-up feature; reduces kickback, binding, lifting, and bent blades
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High tech polymer ensures it will maintain its original shape
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Advanced design means no marring to your workpiece
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Marketadvisory.com Product Description |
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A featherboard is undoubtedly the most underrated router-table accessory of all time. When properly installed, its flexible fingers keep the workpiece pressed tightly against the router tabletop or router fence throughout the routing operation. The result is a dramatic increase in the accuracy, quality and safety of the cuts. Now many woodworkers make their own featherboards from scrap lumber, but here’s a better, safer option: the Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard. This popular router-table accessory consists of not one, but two industrial-quality featherboards. The featherboards are made from a high-tech polymer and each one has 13 angled fingers that apply steady pressure that consistently produces cleaner cuts with less chance of kickback, chattering or lifting. The featherboards slide into miter-gauge slots in the router table or fence, and are locked in place by tightening a pair of knobs. Note that Feather-Loc Featherboards can also be used on a table saw, shaper, bandsaw or any other woodworking machine with a miter gauge slot. -- Joseph Truini |
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Easy, Effective, and Convenient |
I have a total of four Bench-Dog featherboards, two with the 10-012 miter-slot adapter. The 40-011 boards come with square-head bolts that slip into slots in B-Dog's router table's fence and hold the workpiece down to the table and into slots in the router table to hold the workpiece against the fence.
If you purchase the featherboards with the 40-012 miter-slot adapter they're easy to use in the table-saw miter slot of most saws. The 40-012 adapter uses a taper-headed screw to wedge the slider in the slot. I did have trouble keeping the featherboard from moving unless I over-tightened the knob. I sprayed graphite on the screw taper and this solved the problem.
I bought the two-pack for use with the Bench-Dog table-saw extension router table. I found that for best results, I needed two on the infeed side and two on the outfeed and quickly bought two more. |
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It slips - is that safe? |
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Bought this to be safe, instead it slipped while I was cutting on my table saw. The last thing anyone needs is a distraction from a poorly designed tool while your hands are a few inches from a table saw blade. You want to take that chance? |
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Poor quality and a short life. |
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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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Buy another featherboard that has two hold downs in parallel slots!!!! |
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. |
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Essential tool for clean cuts |
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.
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