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I'm making my own white oak door jambs. So far I did one set. I milled some rough cut oak, made two passes through the table saw to roughly remove a rabbet for the integrated door stop.

Then I ran it through the table saw again with a dado stack to get the rabbet to the final dimensions. The problem is, it's difficult to apply even pressure as the wood passes over the dado stack. I already have a featherboard pushing against the fence, but I'm thinking I could use another pushing against the saw top.

I know I can put one on my fence, but that would apply pressure to the part of the board closest to the fence only. Do they make any contraptions that can apply even pressure downwards, but over a larger surface area? Like multiple featherboards extended out over the work piece.

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[-] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

Maybe someone created a 3d print model that you can use to print one. There's probably a maker space with a 3d printer you can ask to print it

[-] edm00se@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

John Heisz showed a little while back how he made his own feather board for table saw use. You can buy one of course or you can make your own, as mechanically they're fairly simple. I've seen more than a few examples that use either a mag switch to connect to the cast iron top of a saw or some that use an expandable bar to fit into a miter/T track.

John's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGrj2DGtoo

Wood magazine's page on making one from scratch: https://www.woodmagazine.com/workshop/jigs/how-to-make-your-own-feather-boards

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago
[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

This is exactly what I was thinking. A bit out of my budget though.

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Lol you're not alone, friend.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can make your own feather boards, if that's what you're asking.

Maybe you could glue a bit of wood the size of your rabbit and glue it to the saw either side of the blade?

[-] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You can make your featherboards any shape and stiffness you want. A wide short one for the fence, pretty stiff and barely pushing on the material from above (just enough to keep it from rising up, really) along with a dado depth support directly behind the stack sounds like it'd do it.

[-] DazeEnd@mstdn.social 1 points 1 day ago

@brownmustardminion I got this featherboard off Amazon and really like it. You can use the two fratherbosrds separately, or stack them on top of each other for ripping tall pieces.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000WUB2JQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

This looks promising. At that price I might as well try it out. Thanks.

[-] Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yes you can use a featherboard above the dado, but not right on top. Set it back an inch or two before the dado so it has less chance of binding up the work piece. More wouldn't be a great idea, but make sure you have a good out feed setup to help with keeping the piece level as it passes off the saw.

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