Woodstock W1105 Board Buddies, Green

These board buddies are a great safety tool, a great extra pair of hands where you don't want your hands to be...on any saw or other machine that cuts wood. It keeps the board moving through the saw straight and steady without any danger to limbs. I highly recommend!

Nice product that should work fine on our shaper after I build some custom brackets. Sturdy casting assembly that should last forever. Nicely done.

I bought these a few weeks ago, and to day I said I need to get those on the machine, I have a Grizzly G1035 shaper, (it looks like the setup in the stock photo of the Board Buddies in the advertisement, I said that will be easy to setup,so I measure to attach my aluminum T track, that was bought separate from the W1055 Board Buddies, It need to be 3 and 7/8" to clear, the old nobs that the factor hold downs that are cast in one piece of the fence bracket,I mount the wood fence board, on the cast parts of the Grizzly shaper, and try to adjust the Board Buddies, I ran out of adjustment, and said hum this is not working, so I reread the directions, and this time I noticed that it says a 3" (THREE INCH) high fence,I need 4 or at least 3 and 7/8" to clear for the aluminum T track, that extends off the back of the wood fence, so I call Grizzly and they have not returned my call yet, and gave no suggestions in my first contact, but I down loaded the SHOP FOX W1624 manual, which is very close to the Grizzly G1035 unit, but one small difference, the cast fence parts have a removable "factory hold down bracket" (in the Grizzly manual it actually shows the SHOP FOX version of the shaper in one picture, so I took the wood board fences back off removed the T track, and took it down to the metal shop and proceeded to saw off the ears and then I put the pieces on the mill and trued them up and squared off the back side so if I ever wanted to in the future I can bolt some thing on to work as an bracket or what ever, I take it back up to the wood shop and cut the board fences back down to 3" and attach the T tracks and now they are easy to adjust and appear as if they will work as advertised,but what I am cautioning is they may not be "one size fits all" one may end having to do some modifications to get things with in the height specifications of the design of the "Board buddies".I really don't think it is the Fault of WOOD STOCK"S Board Buddies, but I did not see any where a caution or warning of the fence height it would work best on, (even the Grizzly catalog/web site that is selling both do not indicate any thing). (it appears that there is a statement on the fence hight now, if there was it did not catch my attention, (and I probably would not have put two and two together to measure my machine, as it looked like the one in the picture,now mine looks nearly like the stock advertisement photo,

These things are great, really helpful in holding things against the fence. We use them on the straight line rip saw to align stock with the fence quickly and accurately.

was easy to install

Excellent tool. Beats the heck out of a feather board. I set these up on my Jet shaper. It's the first time it ever worked like it should.

item as described and works well. but no instructions included.

I'm sure that ,being the woodworker folk the smart people they are , they can conceive a way to adapt these beautiful products to work. For me .....I made the mistake of not buying the rail, so me too spent a full afternoon trying to adapt them to the table saw and the shaper fence. Buy the rail.I often work with thin stock , and my fences are too tall , so the wheel can't reach down all the way. Re-design the fences is only a part of the problem ; You can't effectively use a push stick with these rollers installed.The spring is much too strong for thin stock although You can partially tune it.I bought the yellow type too , anti-kickback. I hope to have another free afternoon sooner or later....