Panel raising bit: Update

That's the advantage of the shaper vis a vis the router -- power and mass. If the cutters are good quality and sharp, you'll be amazed at the cleanliness of the cuts you get in moderately hard woods like walnut and soft maple.

Oak cuts easily enough (particularly white) but may want to chip out a little more; cherry is, of course, notorious for burning but even there a good cutting speed can hog a lot of material. There's where a little experimentation and a power feeder shows its mettle for sure.

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Thanks for that idea. I never would of thought of that. WW

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If the material had been say hickory or hard maple rather than pine, would you have approached the task differently?

Lew

It cut so easy I think I would just us some 1/8" hardboard as a spacer on the fence for the first pass and do a second to clean it up for hardwoods.

--------------------------------- I keep a brown pair of pants for use with LARGE bits.

Lew

Body armor would be more useful. Though I can't recall a case of large bit failure causing injury.

I haven't used a panel-raising bit, yet. What about a 1/8" hardboard spacer on the table?

It has a back cutter, soooo you have to go horizonally into the bit.

Why, yes it would rather mess things up. ;-) Sorry, I forgot that part (I remember now that it was mentioned).

Yeah I missed it the first time too.

As others mentioned I had a back cutter for this op but the idea would be exactly that, get the bit setup exactly as I want it and then add