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

• Bench Dog 10-012 Miter Slot Adapter
• Bench Dog 40-001 ProTop Contractor Benchtop Router Table
• Bench Dog 10-025 Push-Loc Offset Push Stick For Table Saws, Router Tables With Docking Station
• Bench Dog 40-031 ProMax Cast Iron Router Table Extension for a Table Saw Includes Fence and Insert Plate
• Jet JW1044 4-Inch to 2-1/2-Inch Reducer

The black handle has stripped out from the bolt top and is now useless. It slides much better than the cheap plastic miter slot adapter. 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. Update: Amazon has the Bench Dog 10-012 Miter Slot Adapter for about 10 bucks. It's some type of metal. Much better than the plastic that came with the set originally. I would not purchase these again. I recently found some mag lock feather boards at Rockler (i think).

I purchased it. It should have been standard.Once you get them setup for the cut, they work well. I'll be looking for reviews on those. But as others have stated, they are not well thought out or easy to use.

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. 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. I have a total of four Bench-Dog featherboards, two with the 10-012 miter-slot adapter. The 40-012 adapter uses a taper-headed screw to wedge the slider in the slot. I found that for best results, I needed two on the infeed side and two on the outfeed and quickly bought two more. I did have trouble keeping the featherboard from moving unless I over-tightened the knob.

Bought this to be safe, instead it slipped while I was cutting on my table saw. You want to take that chance. 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.

But as others have noted, they are not well made. These would last a week in a shop where they were used with any regularity. I would not recommend this one - not even for a very light duty shop. I purchased one of these on amazon a while ago. There has to be a better quality featherboard out there.

Initially, it was great. 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.

In use they are hard to adjust because the slots are not parallel and the bolts bind. The other bolt only pulls the orange plastic down to the track but does not expand in the slot. This is the biggest problem. These featherboards looked good so I bought. 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. 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. 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.