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Unfortunately, it was received missing some parts which were needed to assemble the unit. This double wide featherboard looked like it would make the job safer. After trimming the miter bar so that it fits, I pondered that I probably would have been better off had I started out by just fabricating a featherboard of my own design. We're talking about an extra 1/64 of an inch. I was looking for something to help in doing some resawing on my bandsaw. After several cycles of contacting the company, receiving the wrong parts, re-contacting them and still no correct parts, I got frustrated and just assembled the unit using whatever hardware I had lying around. I cannot recommend this product, or the company (Milescraft). Ready to do some resawing now.but it turns out that the 3/4" miter bars they supplied are too wide for the slot in the band saw table.
One way to keep your fingers out of a running table saw blade is to set up your cut using a featherboard. very handy product. I have a Hitachi Job Site saw which had nonstandard mitre slots and this featherboard works just fine.
With out a doub't one of the best additions to my Work Shop.It preforms as should without any problems. Very pleased with it as well as the price.
The very first thing I had to do was grind down the miter bars so they would fit properly in the miter slots on my ban and table saws. I had been using Rockler's ([.].) brand but these were at a fair price at the time. My advice would be to order the Rockler brand. You know the old saying "you get what you pay for". I bought this set because it was double stack, price, Amazon's free 2 day shipping, and needed them for a project I had coming up on the weekend. They were just to tight and hard to adjust. I can not comment on the other brands because I've never used them so they may be as good as Rockler, but anyway stay away from these. Had I have known of this problem I would have paid the extra for the Rockler brand.
They are easy to adjust and stay put. I have one set and could use some more, especially when I have the router table and table saw both set up. I just ordered two more sets. The best thing that a pair of these bought as a 1407 set cost less that two individual 1406 feather boards. Very good product. Just toss the red spacer into the drawer if you don't need it.
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