The feather board is supposed to lock down in the miter T-slots with these flimsy square stamped 'nuts'. I couldn't get those to work, but the standard (non T-slot) method pulls a cone headed screw up that pushes the plastic out and this holds very well. The featherboard is not as strong as a wood one but it seems to hold pretty well, how much force do you need to hold the wood against the fence? (I'm responding to the negative reviews here). The push stick is a necessity for a table saw, the push block would be more useful for a jointer (which I don't have) than for a table saw, but I've used mine when dadoing small stock. Overall - happy with this starter set.