Spring Hinge Feather Board for ReSaw on Bandsaw

[Steven Woodward]

Made this "feather board" for re-saw on bandsaw. Works good and handy when re-sawing a long board.


The pressure comes from spring hinges. The hinges maintain uniform pressure over a range of 1 inch which allows for lots of variation in wood thickness. The spring tension on the hinges is adjustable. The hinges are D&D Technologies TruClose® Gate Hinges, Model TCA3S3RC, available from Home Depot, Amazon, and others.


Details and demo starting at 1m43s in this video https://youtu.be/S3L-7cU1kAo

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[Rick Potter]

Another well done video Steven. Very innovative. I also appreciate the lack of music and extraneous chatter.

[Walter Plummer]

A very nice piece of equipment. Thanks for sharing it.

[Robert L Stewart]

Steven,
You are so good at making fixtures and explaining how they work without all the Hoopla. Thanks for all you do. I always look forward to your ideas as they are so very useful.

[Keegan Shields]

Love the simplicity! Adding this to my to-do list.

[Andrew More]

Very smart. These look like they should adjust a lot better to rough stock, which is something I've been feeding into bandsaw for resawing lately.

[Steven Woodward]

Very smart. These look like they should adjust a lot better to rough stock, which is something I've been feeding into bandsaw for resawing lately.

‘That wide range of adjustment for rough stock was my main goal. With a traditional feather board I have to run the board through thickness planer before re-saw, which is annoying.

[al ladd]

Great looking hold in. Creative use of those hinges.... Also appreciate the video format, sparing us the tedious "build video", and instead covering the important details intelligently as a fellow adult.

[Larry Litwin]

Really cool.