Safe tablesaw rip cuts
For a hundred years woodworkers have used their fingers to hold wood down and against a fence while ripping lumber. Generations of woodworkers lost fingers to the saw. About 30,000 woodworkers see an emergency room every year in the USA alone.
Almost always when woodworkers lose their fingers, they are using their left hand to hold the wood against the fence, and they push it through the blade with their right hand.
If the board kicks back, usually the left hand ends up in the blade. Sometimes it’s the right hand, particularly on thin boards.
Why didn’t these short fingered woodworkers use their clamped feather boards? Clamped featherboards take too long (and two hands) to set up.
The Grip-Tite is set up with one hand in 2-3 seconds.
Until the invention of the Grip-Tite Magnetic Featherboard in 1990, there was no fast finger substitute. Over 250,000 woodworkers now use Grip-Tites instead of their fingers.
A powerful super magnet holds the Grip-Tite in place on a cast iron saw deck or steel fenceplate. They are more secure than clamped featherboards, twice as high, and stop kickback better with a sharp polycarbonate anti-kickback spring.
Magnet Power
Until you try to move a Grip-Tite, it is hard to believe that a magnet could be strong enough to do this job. A special type of magnet focuses the magnetic power so it doesn’t slide.
Money back guarantee if the Grip-Tite does not meet your expectations or ever looses strength.
Grip-Tites can hold 40# sideways each - or 40# down when used
on our steel fence plates. The lexan side springs allow for small variations in board width because the magnets will not move.
The Grip-Tites have a cam release switch so you can adjust or remove them easily. The Grip-Tite can easily be released and moved with the cam switch with one finger. They are the only featherboard and hold down that can be set up or removed in 3 seconds with one hand.
The magnets are permanent.
We guarantee them unconditionally for 10 years to never lose their strength.
They are so easy to use, most owners never rip or joint without them. Dangerous cuts like rabbeting a long corner molding are easy and safe. With the kickback stopped and your hands a foot from the blade, most cuts are now much safer and more accurate.
Holding wood upright for resaw and edge cuts on the tablesaw and jointer takes a higher featherboard than the normal 1/2” high one. That is why all our featherboards come with a 1.5” high replaceable anti-kickback lexan spring to hold the wood.
The polycarbonate hold down spring doubles as a 2.5” high feather board for accurate jointing and for all boards on edge. You can even cut a raised panel using two Grip-Tites, or cut a rabbet in a plywood panel with the board on edge.
Stop Kickback
If the table saw scares you, it should. Any tablesaw will kick back a board directly at you at 100 mph. A Grip-Tite feeder system stops the kickback by keeping wood down to the tabletop with a lexan spring. It takes over 50 pounds to lift a board held down with the system.
Your fingers are not very good at holding wood down, and terrible at keeping it from kicking back. One sneeze and the board is coming back at you. Grip-Tites don’t sneeze. They don’t fall into the blade when something goes wrong.
“Very cheap finger insurance...”
“It’s like having an extra pair of hands on the saw.”
