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    This document summarizes a research project that aims to innovate a featherboard used with a table saw. A featherboard helps keep wood flat against a table or fence but existing designs do not allow for easily cutting multiple thin strips of the same thickness. The project aims to develop a prototype featherboard with an adjustable alignment stopper that can guide wood pieces to the blade for efficient cutting of multiple thin strips. The objectives are to determine if the adjustable stopper helps with cutting multiple strips and how effective it is. The researchers will design, fabricate, test and evaluate a prototype to satisfy the goal of convenient production of multiple thin wood strips.

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    This document summarizes a research project that aims to innovate a featherboard used with a table saw. A featherboard helps keep wood flat against a table or fence but existing designs do not allow for easily cutting multiple thin strips of the same thickness. The project aims to develop a prototype featherboard with an adjustable alignment stopper that can guide wood pieces to the blade for efficient cutting of multiple thin strips. The objectives are to determine if the adjustable stopper helps with cutting multiple strips and how effective it is. The researchers will design, fabricate, test and evaluate a prototype to satisfy the goal of convenient production of multiple thin wood strips.

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    This document summarizes a research project that aims to innovate a featherboard used with a table saw. A featherboard helps keep wood flat against a table or fence but existing designs do not allow for easily cutting multiple thin strips of the same thickness. The project aims to develop a prototype featherboard with an adjustable alignment stopper that can guide wood pieces to the blade for efficient cutting of multiple thin strips. The objectives are to determine if the adjustable stopper helps with cutting multiple strips and how effective it is. The researchers will design, fabricate, test and evaluate a prototype to satisfy the goal of convenient production of multiple thin wood strips.

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    Feather Board

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    This document summarizes a research project that aims to innovate a featherboard used with a table saw. A featherboard helps keep wood flat against a table or fence but existing designs do not allow for easily cutting multiple thin strips of the same thickness. The project aims to develop a prototype featherboard with an adjustable alignment stopper that can guide wood pieces to the blade for efficient cutting of multiple thin strips. The objectives are to determine if the adjustable stopper helps with cutting multiple strips and how effective it is. The researchers will design, fabricate, test and evaluate a prototype to satisfy the goal of convenient production of multiple thin wood strips.

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    INNOVATION OF FEATHERBOARD WITH

    ADJUSTABLE ALIGNMENT STOPPER FOR TABLE


    SAW CUTTING

    A Research Project

    Presented to the Faculty of the


    Engineering Program
    College of Mechanical Engineering
    Technological University of the Philippines-Visayas
    City of Talisay, Negros Occidental

    By

    Ariel P. Lopez
    Cesar S. Magallanes Jr.
    John Rey Razonable
    Joseph Gil C. Salcedo
    Eric A. Serazo

    In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Degree


    Bachelor of Science Major In
    Mechanical Engineering

    September 2019
    INTRODUCTION
    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

    In woodworking, ripping wood on the table saw is probably the action


    you'll be doing the most. The table saw makes quick and accurate
    work of milling wood down to workable sizes. Ripping wood means
    feeding the material along the grain of the wood through the blade to
    make a cut along the length of the wood.
    A featherboard is a safety device used when working with
    stationary routers or power saws such as table saws or bandsaws. The
    purpose of a featherboard is to apply pressure against a workpiece, keeping
    it flat against a machine table or fence. However, there are some things that
    feather board cannot do.

    In cutting multiple thin strips with the same thickness, the existing
    featherboard does not have a adjustable alignment stopper that will guide
    the wood to the blade, rather the existing featherboard needs to manually re-
    align by unlocking, removing, reversing and re-adjusting before continuing
    cutting another piece also another problem is that when you adjust the miter
    gauge, chances are the flexible fingers will move when you put the wood
    back and that can lead to errors in cutting.

    According to stumpy nuds woodworking journal, using flexible fingers as


    stopper may lead to cutting errors, instead the use of the back portion of the
    featherboard to act as a stopper to cut multiple thin strips and there is no
    anti-kickback to support the wood and that will lead to errors.

    Inconvenience of feather board set-up to cut multiple thin strips, eventually


    resulting in poor efficiency output.

    In order to cut multiple thin strips without inconveniency, the Innovation of


    featherboard with adjustable alignment stopper for table cutting is
    introduced, using t-bolts as a locking device, a Y shaped-type of blocker is
    attached in the middle part of the featherboard that will act as a stopper to
    align the wood from the featherboard.
    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

    The general objective of the study is to innovate the featherboard with


    adjustable alignment stopper in order to cut multiple thin strips with
    inconvenience and efficiency.

    Specific Objectives of the Study

    1. Can the adjustable alignment stopper help featherboard in cutting


    multiple thin strip?
    2. How effective is adjustable alignment stopper in featherboard?

    To answer the question above, the researchers need to:

    1. Design a prototype.
    2. Fabricate and Develop the prototype.
    3. Test and evaluate the prototype to be used in order to satisfy the
    desired product.
    4. Gather, analyze and interpret results.

    SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

    This study aims to innovate the featherboard with adjustable alignment


    stopper for table cutting to produce multiple thin strips with convenience.

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