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Great idea. Also great for holding a laptop in place on the roof of a car while using an online service manual. Reasonable execution but the soft pads tend to wear quickly.
For those who haven't, they are little "puck-shaped doo-dads" with a bit of soft gripping rubber on each side. And to answer your first question before you even ask it, dust doesn't ruin their gripping power. Its not often that I get to recommend something that's useful, effective AND cheap. Just knock the excess dust off and you're good to go. If you followed our AWFS 2009 coverage, you probably heard enough about these little puck-shaped doo-dads. But so far, I am not having that problem with the material on these little guys. Now we've had router mats for a long time now and I used to buy a similar material in big rolls at Costco.
So I wanted to make sure you all knew about Rockler's Bench Cookies. The idea is to not only elevate your work off the bench for sanding and routing tasks (with no clamps), but to also stop the workpiece from sliding. I'll be anxious to see how they hold up after extensive use in the shop. But I found that the rubbery material always left its pattern behind in the wood and it would take forever to sand it out again.
Work exactly as adversited. My son likes to play with them when he's in the garage with me.I guess you could make them out of hockey pucks glued to that grippey material, but the time it takes to do that would negate any money saved. I use them to raise up wood when i'm routing it.
They were quite large and may have been worth the price had they been edible at all. I thought these were very expensive when I purchased them but at the price I was hoping for a truly wondrous experience. They arrived so stale that I couldn't even bite into them. The dogs wouldn't even eat them (although they did enjoy chasing them when I would throw them and turned out quite useful as dog toys). They tasted disgustingly like plastic or rubber.
It worked really well with no clamping required and gave me access to the entire piece. I haven't used it yet for routing edges, but I did work it to stabilize wood pieces for sanding. It ended up being $6.95 or roughly 60% of the total purchase. Nowhere in the transaction was there an indication of what the postage from Rockler would be. Such a simple innovation, but well worth it. I WAS surprised though at the postage charge. For that, I should have gone to the store rather than purchase online. I bought these as part of a bigger Amazon order.
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