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Edited November 20, 2020
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$80 + free s/h
Featherboards are a great tool for holding your stock and preventing kickback, but they do have their limitations. The JessEm Clear-Cut Stock Guides can overcome these limitations. This set includes one infeed roller and one outfeed roller, which are mounted on a 5° angle effectively steering your stock towards your fence. This angle placement aids in holding the stock with more when it tried to move against the direction of the feed for safer, smoother, and more precise cuts.
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The 5 degree angle set of the rollers directs the material against the fence.
I thought they were the table saw guides when I got the notification lol. I clicked so fast ready to buy its not even funny
Unless you are ripping plywood or other wide stock, they are a semi dangerous solution for table saws. They get in the way and force you to monkey around with hand/push stick placement and you near them.
The router ones can put dangerous stress on the router bit if you use them with a bearing that's proud of the fence.
Overall, these solutions are not good.
Then again, I prefer to make better versions of costly accessories. You can make these, as well as an auto-feed assembly, for less than the price of this sale price. But for myself, and those like me, we make tools and accessories for the joy of it rather than cost. But it is a great perk to save a ton of money on these (extremely overpriced) items for woodworking.
The internet is full of ideas. So if you really want these "Must have accessories" but the $80 (half the price of say, a Bosch 1617EVSPK router system, on sale) scares you away, then get to googling, and have fun!
Use an auto-feed assembly. They're pricey to buy, but really inexpensive to make. And all your ripping will be done for ya.
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These apply force down and towards the fence. So it's similar to using a feather board on the fence to hold down and another on the table to hold the wood toward the fence.
The router ones can put dangerous stress on the router bit if you use them with a bearing that's proud of the fence.
Overall, these solutions are not good.