JessEm4015 Feather Board Single

While I love these for quality, purpose and style, I quickly discovered one small limitation upon installing. Definitely a quality piece! I decided to use these on my Incra Router Table with a few other JessEm products due to issues I'llnow discuss. Originally, Ibought this for my table saw. The support bracket that tightens in the track should be wider and both knobs in line to get more travel with the featherboard. You can get the extra reach if you take apart and put the bracket on backwards. But then it won't retract as far. So as long as you only need minimum travel or dont mind extra work assembling and disassembling the featherboard, then get the Kreg featherboards. They have far more travel than these. But the advantage to these versus others, is you can leave it tightened in place and still slide the depth of the featherboard or vise versa. Hopefully I explained this well enough.

I like the design. I have had numerous feather boards over the years and this is the best one. The biggest reason is the ability to move the board in and out without moving the track locking bar. The track locking bar is better than most too. Primarily because of the material they used. It's still the standard "wedging" type bar. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is the hardware. The knobs turned very hard. I had to run a tap through one of them to be able to use it with just my fingers instead of a tool. Also, the heads on the "T" bolts are badly formed. Both of them had a projection in the center of the flat part that is on the bottom. They stuck out and caused the side to side adjustment to be very difficult because they would rub on the saw table. I took a small amount of material off the bottom to flatten them out. It's just kind of irritating that they would take a good design and then put cheap hardware on it.

I purchased the JessEm 4015 Feather Board after the frustration of trying to use the Kreg feather board on my Deswalt DWE7491RS table saw. I have a number of Kreg tools, but the Kreg feather board was almost impossible to get it to snug down whereas the JessEm works like a charm. The problem with the Kreg is that the two bars that fit into the miter slot do not expand when tightened down. Wrapping them with tape helped but they still slipped around. The JessEm miter slot bars are slotted allowing them to expand and snug down. Once snugged into place you loosen the other two knobs to adjust the feather board's position and retighten. In my opinion, with my saw, The JessEm 4015 is far superior to the Kreg.

This is my first JessEm product, having seen many of their jigs and accessories in catalogs. I'm impressed. The build quality is top notch and they really thought through the features to maximize usability. The T-track/miter slot hardware included with this is very flexible and even fit to my oddly sized miter slot on a lower priced Bosch router table. Great into to the company - it makes me want to check out their other products for sure. Highly recommend this for folks with less-expensive tools with miter slots that need some forgiveness for under-engineered slot tolerances or sizing, such as portable job site table saws, jig saws, router tables, etc.

Have used the JessEm feather board's on table saw and router table (both horizontal and vertical orientation) and IMO are great improvement over other brands. Wide range of adjustable width from miter slot or t-track to work piece, t-bolts slide easily, knobs are easy/comfortable to adjust, feathers have right amount of stiffness/flexibility to maintain control of workpieces. Gives me confidence in making critical cuts. You’ll want two of these!

Could not be more pleased with a feather board. Very secure and tight in track without needing to over tighten. Several configurations that are simple to make. Aligns accurately with simple slide to depth and without slop. I wish now that I had opted for the double stack version but do not regret this purchase. I am saving up for the double.

I expected much better quality from this company. The rail locking system is a horrible design. The plastic rail piece should lock in place using a tapered stud with tabs on the lock tapers to ensure the studs do not rotate while tightening.Chinese Quality Control, if there is such a thing, let a bunch of studs go through with undersized tabs.First attempt at tightening my rail in the track, and the stud spins in the plastic rail, making that lock useless.I'm sure the opposite stud is going to spin in the plastic rail soon...metal stud-plastic rail. I do have a mill in my shop. I will certainly come up with a better locking system.I purchased 2 boards, but only took one out of the packaging. I'm so disappointed in this, I hung the other on the wall.I wish I could go lower than 1 star

I have used several different kinds of featherboards and this one is by far the best. Its very stable, it can be stacked, and the slightly shorter front feather to help perfectly position the board for the right force is brilliant. If you get these you will NOT be disappointed.