On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:50:00 +0100, Ogee wrote:

Howdy,
just wondering if anyone has any experience with these magnetic
featherboards:

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5970
http://www.magswitch.us/prod01.htm

I'm considering buying one of them, should be useful for my Veritas
steel router table...

But there's also this model to consider:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...34&cat=1,43000

So the question is, what's the best solution?
(And no, I do not want to make something out of wood, have already done
that and I'm not too happy about it).


Used my grip tites yesterday afternoon, set up on a shaper to run a
bunch of stock making stiles and rails. I use them regularly. The
only disadvantage is that to use them on a fence face as hold downs,
you have to add a steel plate to your fence because they are magnetic.
If you have lots of fences that are either aluminum, wood, or
composite or laminate, they won't work without doing that. But for a
cast iron table they are slick.

Haven't used the other ones, but the fact they are magnetic would
solve the problem of the ones that expand and lock in a miter slot.
Seems like no matter what size the stock, that thing just won't reach
far enough.....

Frank