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Michael Pickering
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
Worked as advertised. Did a great kob.
Brian D
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
The bevel angle was exactly correct
peter zandvliet
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
I used the bits to re create existing window trim for an100 year old house using oak the bit performed flawless
Stephen.R
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024
I make lots of cabinet doors. Not as a business, just for DIY projects around the house and garage. I have tried making the raised panel doors using a table saw jig I made, and it worked great. It is just a bit sketchy, and you are somewhat limited to the style. I have never used one of these raised panel bits before, so I wanted to make sure I did it safely. I am using maple, which is a hard wood that leaves a clean edge. I first practiced on pine to get the set up correct and to get the intimidation factor to diminish. I used this bit in my home-made router table with a larger Craftsman router. They say not to use this bit in a handheld router, and I would agree. The pine boards were left with a bit of a jagged edge that would need to be sanded down if it were not just practice. I decided to go ahead and try the maple boards and they were left with a much cleaner edge, that will require very light sanding. After completing two door panels the edge was still looking good. I had two more to go for my project and they also turned out great. There is definitely a need to clean and sharpen this bit, but I think it will keep going for a while. The bearing is smooth and a drop of bearing oil at each end will keep that in good shape also.This is a great bit for the DIY guy for occasional use, but a professional would probably need to look for a better-quality bit. For the money this is a decent bit, and I can recommend it.
-Andrew
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
I wanted to try making cabinet doors without investing in a high end set of router bits. This bits are solidly built but are already starting to lose their edge. Working with white oak and after a few passes the cutting edge is not nearly as sharp, I don't expect to get more than a couple of doors finished with these bits, but they were good to practice with, unfortunately I don't think they will last.
Milo
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023
I don't normally make cabinets, which is what you'd really want this for. The bit was shipped wrapped first in a little plastic bubble wrap sleeve, then in a plastic box that it was set in. Finally in a carboard box. It was protected and secure, but I think something to insert it into in order to store it better (i.e. standing up) would have been appreciated instead of laying diagonally in a plastic box.It's sharp and works well. I don't think I'd use it if you were making a lot of custom cabinets for a client, but doubt you'd buy it if you were. The durability might not be there, but I have no evidence for that other than the brand and price, as well as a couple other reviews on here. Compare this to a name brand, and you'll see that they can go 3 times this price or more for the same bit. What I plan to use this for is to "practice" making raised panels as it's a relatively inexpensive bit for that. Sometimes when working with routers, or for that matter, almost any woodworking tool, it looks deceptively simple to get good results until you actually try it yourself.So, I wouldn't hesitate to get this, but I also wouldn't confuse this with a very high quality (and much more expensive) bit. Think about the different between a chef's knife you'd pick up at a big box store and one of the well known German brand of chef's knife. Then again, I could be wrong, so maybe someone else who does more work with this might have a different opinion.
Alan Wolf
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2023
Before I write anything about the quality of this bit—if you are thinking about buying it to use in a router, unless you have that router mounted into a table, I wouldn't recommend this bit. Not because of any flaw in the bit—it's just too dangerous. Even in a router table, a bit this size has the ability to throw parts of your fingers across the shop.I earned my living in various shops over a 50 year career. None were out and out cabinet shops; if we needed wood parts milled to a specific profile, etc. we would job that out to shops that had the equipment and skillsets. I would get to know the craftspeople in those shops, and the most common reason someone had a few missing fingers was large diameter router bits.So—be extra careful, please. (And don't forget your face shield or goggles, and ear protection!)The bit is well balanced, which I tested by just running it in the handheld router—there was no sense of wobble. When mounted in my router table, I started a small cut into a piece of white oak—just to be ornary. It did a nice clean cut. Where there was a knot in the oak (I did mention being ornary) the bit just cut right through, with no change in pitch or feel. The cut does exhibit some burning at the knot, which I'm not surprised at. With the new bit, the cut was clean enough not to even need any sanding.The one thing I can't review yet is the durability of the edge. The carbide looks to be of good quality, but even after using machine tools for so long, while I can look at tool steel and get a sense of its quality, carbide is much harder for me to judge.Since I started this review off with a general caution, I'll end it with a tip: always take the collet out of your router when changing bits, and make sure there's no dust either in the collet slots or in the conical shaft hole that the collet fits into. Even a small amount of dust will make the bit slightly off center, and increase the chances of some roughness or wavyness in the cut. With wood this is a bit less critical than with the plastics or non-ferrous metals I was typically routing in my shop, but anything I can do to avoid clean up sanding is worth it to me.
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