Bench Cookies: The Most Versatile Accessory in Your Workshop

If you’re looking for a simple, game-changing upgrade to your workshop, bench cookies are it! These small but powerful discs offer unmatched grip, stability, and elevation. Combine them with some popular bench cookie accessories and you'll find countless uses for them in the workshop. Let’s take a closer look at bench cookies and some of the other products in the bench cookie family.
Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers:

With their non-slip rubber pads and durable core, bench cookies protect your workpieces and provide a firm hold on almost any surface, making them essential for sanding, routing, finishing, and more.
Why You'll Love Them
- No-Slip Stability – Keep your workpieces firmly in place without clamps.
- Perfect Elevation – Raise your material for easy edge work and full access.
- Surface Protection – Prevent scratches and dings while painting or staining.
- Compact & Mighty – Small enough to store anywhere but powerful enough for any project.

Newly redesigned, the Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers now include a threaded insert for adding a variety of accessories that elevate your work and provide plenty of clearance for all your project needs. Each Bench Cookie Plus provides 1" of lift, which provides clearance for most router bits. Stacking two of them provides enough clearance for most jigsaw blades. Each also features a threaded insert in the bottom for adding an optional riser if more clearance is needed.
VIDEO: Take a closer look at Rockler Bench Cookie Plus.
Optional Accessories Available for the Bench Cookie Plus:
Bench Cookie Risers: The perfect accessory to add versatility and height to your Bench Cookie. Standard Risers double the height and XL Risers allow you to triple the height of your Bench Cookie discs when threaded into the center insert.
Bench Cookie® T-Track Risers: T- Track Risers slide conveniently into your T-track to provide a set of four elevated posts for your Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers.
Bench Cookie Sawhorse Clips: Sawhorses are practical when you need a portable work surface, but workpieces tend to rattle around and get scratched while you saw, rout and sand. Simply slip the clips over your sawhorses, spin your Bench Cookies Plus on, and you have a no-mar, no-slip work surface that is easily resizable for any workpiece.
Bench Cookie Cones: Bench Cookie Finishing Cones attach to Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers and lift your project off your bench with minimal surface contact, keeping it stable during the entire finishing process!
Bench Cookie Bridges: Bench Cookie Finishing Bridges attach to Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers and allow you to balance narrow rails, stiles, dowels and louver stock for finishing. They provide minimal surface contact between the Bench Cookie Bridge and your workpiece.
Bench Cookie Storage Racks
Keep all your Bench Cookie Work Grippers and accessories neatly organized and within easy reach! The Work Gripper Storage Rack, Riser Storage Rack, and Finishing Cone Storage Rack can be stored on a shop wall, your workbench, or to pegboard with the included proprietary pegboard screws. Since the racks are separate, you can locate each type of accessory where it makes the most sense.
Bench Cookie Connect:
Any way you slice it, you'll find countless uses for the Rockler Bench Cookie Connect. Each of the four quadrants have high-friction rubber pads on both faces to hold your workpiece steady during sawing, sanding and routing. The quadrants snap together to form a jumbo 7-1/8''-diameter Bench Cookie that's great for sanding small parts, or you can separate the quadrants and reconnect them in an endless variety of configurations depending on your needs.
Bench Cookie Connect is the same thickness as our original Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers, so all can be used together seamlessly. Each quadrant also has a threaded insert for mounting optional accessories like Sawhorse Clips and Risers, for when additional clearance is needed.
VIDEO: Take a closer look at the Bench Cookie Connect
Why You'll Love The Bench Cookie Connect
- Four quadrants snap together to form a 7-1/8'' diameter Bench Cookie.
- Use them separately or link them together in a huge variety of configurations.
- When connected in a round, large combined surface area provides increased stability.
- Snap them together in a line to provide continuous support for narrow workpieces.
- Integral "snaps" hold quadrants together while also allowing separation.
- Each quadrant has a threaded insert for mounting optional accessories like Risers and Sawhorse Clips.
- Quadrants are same thickness as original Bench Cookie Plus Work Grippers, so they can be used together.
- 90° corners on quadrants can be faced out when gluing up frames for better support at the corners.
The Bench Cookie Link:
Let your Bench Cookies work as a team by linking them together. The bench cookie link features telescoping extension arms with rings that let you snap in a set of 4 Bench Cookies and quickly adjust them to fit your workpiece.
Build with Confidence
Whether you're crafting a custom piece or putting the final touches on a project, the right tools make all the difference. With Rockler bench cookies and accessories you get the precision, stability, and reliability you need. From first cut to final coat, we’re here to help you bring your vision to life.
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