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

Customer Reviews Average rating - 3.0

Rating - 2 Date: 2008-11-27
Content: Update: Amazon has the Bench Dog 10-012 Miter Slot Adapter for about 10 bucks. I purchased it. It's some type of metal. Much better than the plastic that came with the set originally. It slides much better than the cheap plastic miter slot adapter. It should have been standard.

Once you get them setup for the cut, they work well. But as others have stated, they are not well thought out or easy to use. The black handle has stripped out from the bolt top and is now useless. I would not purchase these again. 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?
I recently found some mag lock feather boards at Rockler (i think). I'll be looking for reviews on those.
Summary: I agree with the other reviews.

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-10-21
Content: I have a total of four Bench-Dog featherboards, two with the 10-012 miter-slot adapter. 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. The 40-012 adapter uses a taper-headed screw to wedge the slider in the slot. I did have trouble keeping the featherboard from moving unless I over-tightened the knob. 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. I found that for best results, I needed two on the infeed side and two on the outfeed and quickly bought two more.
Summary: Easy, Effective, and Convenient

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-09-13
Content: Bought this to be safe, instead it slipped while I was cutting on my table saw. 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. You want to take that chance?
Summary: It slips - is that safe?

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-08-25
Content: I purchased one of these on amazon a while ago. Initially, it was great. But as others have noted, they are not well made. 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. These would last a week in a shop where they were used with any regularity. There has to be a better quality featherboard out there. I would not recommend this one - not even for a very light duty shop.
Summary: Poor quality and a short life.

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-05-13
Content: These featherboards looked good so I bought. In use they are hard to adjust because the slots are not parallel and the bolts bind. 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. 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!! This is the biggest problem. The other bolt only pulls the orange plastic down to the track but does not expand in the slot. 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.
Summary: Buy another featherboard that has two hold downs in parallel slots!!!!