Question of the day: what is your go-to bowl bit?
I bought a SpeTool 1/4" Shank Router Bit 3/4 Cutting Diameter 70mm/3" Total Length Bowl & Tray bit on Amazon. It’s been great so far
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Here’s the link to the Canadian Amazon listing
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1/4”, 3/16” and 1/8” radius
Used for finish pass only, offset final bottom of pocket pass 0.01 at 50% step over.
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@Jeffish could you share your feeds and speeds? Or your tool setup in carbide?
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Awesome. Where did you get this? It’s an image not a link.
@Jeffish yes…any way to get feeds, etc? Thanks!
I will note that we have a video on this:
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Thanks @WillAdams . I did do a search inside of the community but couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. This is awesome!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9JTS4R6?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL5212QG?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL53N4MD?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2
they are available in different diameters and radius’. With a small radius like 1/8" the bottom one creates is for the user difficult to clean: I cannot get into the corners with my sausage fingers, even for applying my wood butter, therefore the ones with 0.25"radius are the best for bowls IMO.
And: this kind
has 3 cutting edges, what makes a much smoother surface, and allows for higher speed, and -IMO most important- the cutting edges are sharp, not just 90deg like these:
that just scrape off dust instead of clearly cutting chips.
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@SirGariff & @TonyMurray I’ll pull them out of my tool database later today and post them here
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Sounds good thank you @Jeffish
Woodpeckers. Unless I’m in dire straits for a specific bit I just wait for a sale which is always with free shipping on their bits.
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I have had good luck with my Whiteside bowl bit:
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Based on the wood species I have less tearout with the radius cut vs a square endmill. The 1/8” radius is hard to see but saves me time on finishing.
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Here’s the line from my tool database
8007 SpeTool W08007 W08007 Bowl Bit (3/4") bowl 0.75 0.25 0.625 0.25 0 2 2 0 40 120 18000 0.125 0 26.66666667 120 18000
BTW Here’s the link to the Spetools Speeds and Feeds page.
https://spetools.com/en-ca/pages/spetool-router-bits-speed-and-feeds
And their database, just scroll down to whatever software you are using and download the file
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My next large-ish bowl bit will likely be: https://www.cadencemfgdesign.com/product-page/bowl-cut-jenny
Based on the tooling I’ve ordered in the past and the general community feedback, I’m sure I’ll be plenty happy with the results. (It is a mighty spendy tool though!)
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Second these bits. In Canada and these work great.
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I like the 3" shank on these. Allows you to get a deeper bowl or tray. Just have to be careful with the speeds and DOC so you don’t get any deflection.
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So… stupid question of the day. Do you leave the bearing on? Does it come off? I assumed from my reading and watching that bearings on bits were a big nono.