Using Feather Boards

Chris marshall field editor for woodworkers journal magazine takes a closer look at featherboards. The humble feather board is a prime example. When clamped to the table of the stationary tool the flexible fingers can be positioned to hold your.

Adafruit Wiced Wifi Feather Stm32f205 With Cypress Wiced Wifi Id

Feather Vs Bleed On Paper And How To Prevent Both Strathmore

New Breakout Board Compatible With Adafruit Feather Neocortec

For basic simple featherboards thats it.

Using feather boards. After the angled cuts the individual finger tabs were cut using a band saw. This will serve as the stop line when youre cutting the fingers of the featherboard on the table saw. Table saw feather board review with practical demonstration of how to setup and use. Many libraries including the popular ones like neopixels and display work great with the 32u4 and 8 mhz clock speed.

Mark a line 3 inches in from the mitered end of the board parallel to the 30 degree mitered cut using a bevel or a layout square. I like feather boards they are great for holding stock tight against the fence and they can also help prevent kickbackthe feathers on the tool hold your work tight even if the edge of your workpiece isnt perfectly flat. The ends of the feather boards were trimmed using a miter gauge on a table saw. Since the feather 32u4 uses an atmega32u4 chip running at 8 mhz you can pretty easily get it working with the arduino ide.

I have a pilot countersink tool for the driver i would consider using if the boards did split. If you do not have a bevel you can merely measure more than 3 inches from each edge of the 30 degree miter cut and make a pencil mark. Feather edge board fitting method. If you havent had the opportunity to use one a featherboard is the most common member of a family of mechanical hold down devices designed to help hold stock up against a tools surface or fence while its cut of otherwise machined.

Some say screw some say nail some say go through both feather boards some say go through just the one. Why you should use them what some of your options are and where to learn more about them. A featherboard is a woodworking accessory used with stationary power cutting tools including such tools as a table saw radial arm saw or router tablea featherboard is essentially a flat piece of wood or plastic which has a series of flexible narrow fingers cut or formed into one side. Discussion in in the garden started by ouch77 14 may 2014.