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

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

BRAND NEW Bench Dog Feather-Loc Multi-Purpose Featherboard High tech polymer specially formulated to maintain its original shape Fits 1/4" T-Slots (Purchase 2 10-012 adapters to use with other sizes) 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

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

I would not purchase these again. But as others have stated, they are not well thought out or easy to use. I purchased it. It should have been standard. Much better than the plastic that came with the set originally. The black handle has stripped out from the bolt top and is now useless.

I recently found some mag lock feather boards at Rockler (i think). It slides much better than the cheap plastic miter slot adapter. Update: Amazon has the Bench Dog 10-012 Miter Slot Adapter for about 10 bucks. It's some type of metal. I'll be looking for reviews on those. I think I can buy the replacement pieces to fix the stripped out problem but what the heck, I have only used them a couple dozen times and they need repairs.

Once you get them setup for the cut, they work well.

I sprayed graphite on the screw taper and this solved the problem. I found that for best results, I needed two on the infeed side and two on the outfeed and quickly bought two more.

The 40-012 adapter uses a taper-headed screw to wedge the slider in the slot. 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.

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.

I bought the two-pack for use with the Bench-Dog table-saw extension router table.

I did have trouble keeping the featherboard from moving unless I over-tightened the knob.

So there is always some rotational play in the featherboard. This is the biggest problem. The other problem is only one of the bolt knobs actually cause the miter track to expand to hold the featherboard in. They should have kept the slots parallel. 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. These featherboards looked good so I bought.

In use they are hard to adjust because the slots are not parallel and the bolts bind. The bottom line is this is an expensive featherboard with two insurmontable problems, so keep looking. The other bolt only pulls the orange plastic down to the track but does not expand in the slot. Also, featherboards only work when the fingertips are parallel to the fence and these are hard to adjust.

This is in a rarely used hobby shop, so saw very little action. There has to be a better quality featherboard out there.

They do strip out after some use, making them worthless. But as others have noted, they are not well made.

I purchased one of these on amazon a while ago. Initially, it was great.

I would not recommend this one - not even for a very light duty shop. These would last a week in a shop where they were used with any regularity.

I did not use this often, so its not like it was heavily used - or abused.