Feather Board Help Needed...

[Derek Arita]

I really liked using my magnetic feather boards on my PM2000. They were so easy, quick and versatile and I could place them anywhere on the table surface I needed to. Now with the non-metallic table on the Jobsite Pro, I have to find a good alternative. Suggestions please...

[Jim Allen]

I have a Craftsman TS with a granite top, I use a steel plate clamped to the table top when the piece I'm cutting is too wide for the feather board that goes in the miter slot.

[Derek Arita]

I have a Craftsman TS with a granite top, I use a steel plate clamped to the table top when the piece I'm cutting is too wide for the feather board that goes in the miter slot.

Interesting. Never thought of that.

[Warren Lake]

wood scrap is all we ever used clamped to the table, if I was smarter would have drilled the tables years ago and just used bolts rather than clamps. Dont use them tons but reasons for sure when they are a good addition to what is being machined. Know there are all kinds of factory holes on the shaper tables and some or most are meant for gizmos of some sort.

[John K Jordan]

wood scrap is all we ever used clamped to the table, if I was smarter would have drilled the tables years ago and just used bolts rather than clamps. Dont use them tons but reasons for sure when they are a good addition to what is being machined. Know there are all kinds of factory holes on the shaper tables and some or most are meant for gizmos of some sort.

I now have magnetic feather boards but I also used wood scrap. I'd make featherboards with a series of diagonal cuts in a piece of wood, then fasten it to a piece of plywood clamped to the table. I guess the plywood could have been held down with the lead brick I keep in the shop.

[Edward Weber]

I like and use the BOW feather boards
https://bow-products.com/

[Derek Cohen]

Derek, I could use a feather board - here clamped into the mitre slot …

https://sawmillcreek.org/blob:https://sawmillcreek.org/4c6c6eea-b794-4d2c-bff8-978815ed83f6
https://i.postimg.cc/HnVVGys0/FB1.jpg

… but JessEm Clear Cut Stock Guides double both as hold downs and force the work piece against the rip fence …

https://sawmillcreek.org/blob:https://sawmillcreek.org/93dd3632-45d6-4e72-9512-93dd78548c27
https://i.postimg.cc/nrm0mMkh/Jess-Em-Clear-Cut-Stock-Guides.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Darrell Bade]

I like my JessEm Clear Cut Guides.

[Rod Wolfy]

I often just clamp the featherboard down with a couple clamps. I make the featherboards out of 12" to 15" long oak offcuts, which have the "teeth" cut on my bandsaw.

[Derek Arita]

I like and use the BOW feather boards
https://bow-products.com/

Saw these and they do look interesting as well. Only thing I don’t like is being limited by the miter slot. That said, it’s something.

[Rob Sack]

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I have a magnetic featherboard. The only problem is that the magnets tend to end up over the miter slot so I have to use it in conjunction with the miter gauge so that the bar from the miter gauge transfers the magnetic force. I now use the Featherpro from Bow Products.

[Warren Lake]

that is not a position for a feather board unless you want it to push the material into the saw blade.

Id never use a set up like Dereks first photo. Nonsense just in the way of using a push stick. No offense Derek you do great work.

Like Rod I use wood offcuts and not often.

[Rob Sack]

that is not a position for a feather board unless you want it to push the material into the saw blade.

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If you are talking about my photo, I just threw it on the saw for the photo. Obviously, I would never use it in that position.

[Warren Lake]

Wont be obvious to everyone, seen enough in the wrong place and some hobby people follow what they see. I look at it and and dont have anything positive to say. Not longer to put it into a place it would be used.

[Dick Mahany]

I use an expanding miter slot strip to securely hold feather boards on my non-magnetic saw table.
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