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

by Bench Dog

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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

Product Description

The FL200 is a pair of Feather-Loc featherboards without the slot adapter. Buy this if you are using the featherboards on equipment with a 1/4 hex t-track.

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000DD5SP
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 40-011
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,448 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #2 in Home Improvement > Power & Hand Tools > Power Tool Accessories > Router Accessories > Tables
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Customer Reviews

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74 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor design and construction, February 3, 2006

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Darryl Ramm (Redwood City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard for Table Saws & Router Tables (Tools & Home Improvement)

I purchased several of these. Initially they looked good, but in use they are annoying and end up breaking. Most other commercially available featherboards are better designed, better built and cost less! I am surprised other reviewers rate these so high, I suspect the ratings are given before much use.

1. The black plastic knobs that you use to tighten the featherboard in place capture onto a nut head. The largest problem with these featherboards is that it is easy to strip the black plastic knobs when they are tightened, allowing the plastic knob to turn freely on the captive bolt.

2. A better design would ensure a more positive capture into the track slot by having both black knobs works to lock the split aluminum bar into the track slot, in this design only one of the knobs does this. Which BTW is the one that strips as above, since you have to tighten it enough to stop the featherboard sliding in the track.

3. The black plastic knobs are small and feel cheap, other commercial featherboards have larger knobs that are easier to tighten.

4. Also after using them for a while you've start to hate the non-parallel bolt slots that the featherboard slides around on. Most other commercial featherboards have parallel slots and these are easier to adjust.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Usefull but awkward to use, January 12, 2007

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E. Weber "woodworker" (NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard for Table Saws & Router Tables (Tools & Home Improvement)

I have been using these featherboards for a little while now both on my router table and on my table saw fence.
They do there job but I find it awkward and time consuming to set them up because of the non parallel slots.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Came without the track bars, January 9, 2007

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Dave P (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bench Dog 40-011 Feather-Loc Double Featherboard for Table Saws & Router Tables (Tools & Home Improvement)

Maybe I didn't review it closely enough, but this product shipped without the bars to allow it to track in my table saw. Should have been more clearly evident.