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Since the feather boards at work are always disappearing I make my own sometimes. I find them quicker and easier to use, I just use two quick clamps to lock the plywood to the edge of the table.
Looks like a throwaway tool haha, but if it works, then no one will be the wiser and it doesn’t look special enough for someone to take off with it..
What do you think of the featherpro boards?
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I think they are over priced
this does just as good half the money
KnarlyCarl wrote:
23 minutes ago, KnarlyCarl said:Looks like a throwaway tool haha, but if it works, then no one will be the wiser and it doesn’t look special enough for someone to take off with it..
What do you think of the featherpro boards?
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I haven’t tried them so can’t say but I’ve got a set of Bench Dog ones I like quite a lot.
I do not see myself spending 30.00 for a feather board. I bought a few at rocker brand ones a while back when they were on sale. I mainly use them on the router table.
I’ll stick with a firm grip, standing to the side, and paying close attention to the thing trying to murder me.
After a couple times fighting through with pieces the saw was trying to throw back, I wouldn’t trust one of these.
The plywood one I made stopped a 2×6 dead in its tracks on a kick back when it bound up. But I mainly use them for small pieces when I do not want to get my fingers close to the blade. The other day I was cutting quarter round to make shoe molding out of it, basically taking the thickness of the blade off of it, NO way was I getting my fingers that close to the blade.
We have about 8 saw stops, but I do not trust them as they are so poorly maintained.
Here is one that spent the night out in the rain…
SetBuilder wrote:
1 minute ago, SetBuilder said:The plywood one I made stopped a 2×6 dead in its tracks on a kick back when it bound up. But I mainly use them for small pieces when I do not want to get my fingers close to the blade. The other day I was cutting quarter round to make shoe molding out of it, basically taking the thickness of the blade off of it, NO way was I getting my fingers that close to the blade.
We had about 8 saw stops, but I do not trust them as they are so poorly maintained.
Here is one that spent the night out in the rain…
Now thats just sickening, talk about neglecting a tool…
JimboS1ice wrote:
Just now, JimboS1ice said:Now thats just sickening, talk about neglecting a tool…
Yup, that and a dewalt miter saw were left on a truck in the lot. They did not even have to unload it, all they had to do was park the truck inside. The shop is about 60,000 sqft with 3 huge roll up doors.
SetBuilder wrote:
On 1/9/2017 at 11:28 PM, SetBuilder said:The plywood one I made stopped a 2×6 dead in its tracks on a kick back when it bound up. But I mainly use them for small pieces when I do not want to get my fingers close to the blade. The other day I was cutting quarter round to make shoe molding out of it, basically taking the thickness of the blade off of it, NO way was I getting my fingers that close to the blade.
We have about 8 saw stops, but I do not trust them as they are so poorly maintained.
Here is one that spent the night out in the rain…
This makes me sad. Here sawstop, sawstop – I’ll take care of you – park you inside where you’ll never get rained on again 😀