What is a feathers?

The feather is a small, angle piece of wood or plastic with small parallel fingers sliced ​​into an angle edge. These fingers are placed on 1/8 inches (about 3.175 mm) to 1/4 inches (about 6.35 mm) apart. When they are clamped or attached to the table or fence, small fingers on the feather dozens bend slightly to allow a piece of wood to slip around and keep the pressure on this piece of wood, so it does not bite in the sawmill, radial arm or router table or table with an area or table. Feathers help keep cut in a long piece of wood smooth and clean. Especially useful is useful in cutting small pieces that can be difficult to secure safely. The home version of this tool is easy to create from extraordinary plywood or scrap without defects and features for the production of feathers can be found in the wide variety of Carpentry Books and online sources. This home tool can be clasped to the table to keep a piece of wood firmly against the fence or to the fence to make a piece of wood firm pRoti table. Sometimes two or more peranters can be used together to secure a piece of wood against the table and the fence when it slips through the saw.

To safely use feathers, there must be a short end of the angle towards the front of the saw. Otherwise, it will have the opposite effect on a piece of wood and prevent the wood from moving through the saw. This can cause the wood to get stuck and turn the blade.

Several manufacturers such as bench dog, Magswitch and Grip-use, produce magnetic versions that eliminate the need for clamps, or offer easy-to-use feathers with specially designed clamps that locked in a slot or screw into the fence. Made of Ones is often made of durable polymer and can also be purchased from local hardware stores. The use of feathers adds another layer of safety, prevents the blades from twisting and gives the cut piece of wood higher quality.