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Re: ROUTER BITS
By:Bart Castleberry
Date: 11/5/1999, 8:32 pm
In Response To: ROUTER BITS (DAN MOSLANDER)

I actually used the Grizzly bits for my strip canoe that i am now finishing. They were the cheapest I could find at the time. They are 1/4" bits. In think that they did pretty well, I did a lot of western red cedar and some redwood, the cedar went through fine regardless of grain orientation, speed of bit, feeding speed, BUT the redwood was a pain, most of the problems I had I feel confident that I could fix next time but there was a lot of tearout and splintering. There was a thread regarding this recently that had some great ideas (ones that I suspect could have fixed the problems). I did use lots of feather boards and that helped a lot as did 16' infeed/outfeed tables (2x12's)

> A FRIEND AND I ARE BOTH GOING TO BUILD A STRIP-BUILT KAYAK-- WE SEEM TO BE
> HAVING A PROBLEM FINDING A 1/4" ROUTER BIT FOR BOTH THE
> "COVE" AND "BEAD". WHERE WE WORK, THE COMPANY CARRIES
> BOTH "BOSCH" AND "AMANA" BRANDS BUT THE CATALOGS
> DON"T SEEM TO HAVE WHAT WE NEED. HELP????????????

Messages In This Thread

ROUTER BITS
DAN MOSLANDER -- 11/5/1999, 12:28 am
Re: ROUTER BITS
Rehd -- 11/5/1999, 9:46 pm
Re: ROUTER BITS
Bart Castleberry -- 11/5/1999, 8:32 pm
Another source
Mike Scarborough -- 11/5/1999, 2:34 pm
Re: ROUTER BITS
Charles Cooper -- 11/5/1999, 1:29 pm
Re: ROUTER BITS 1/2" vs 1/4"
Jack Sanderson -- 11/5/1999, 9:32 am
Re: ROUTER BITS 1/2" vs 1/4"
Charles Cooper -- 11/5/1999, 1:05 pm
Re: ROUTER BITS 1/2" vs 1/4"
Tom Kurth -- 11/5/1999, 8:53 pm
Re: ROUTER BITS
Greg Hicks -- 11/5/1999, 8:52 am
Re: ROUTER BITS
Dave Houser -- 11/5/1999, 1:40 am
Re: ROUTER BITS
Tig (and Tink) -- 11/6/1999, 3:11 am