Amazon has
6-Piece Bosch 1/4" Carbide-Tipped Router Bits Assortment (RBS006) for
$59.95.
Shipping is free.
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cohiba for finding this deal.
Features:- Most popular profiles for straight, trimming, decorative edging, and dovetail joinery job applications
- Premium-quality micrograin Carbide tips provide superior wear resistance, sharper edges, excellent smoothness and long life
- Balanced and controlled cut design helps minimize kickback and allows smooth cuts with minimal vibration
- Compact ball-bearing pilot guides bit along edge of material
- Reusable storage case with a solid wood base and clear plastic top
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I bought a 15-bit set from MLCS (now hvalleytools.com) that's going strong years later... there are several bits I've never used. or used very infrequently, and for the price they work fine. And it made it a lot easier to spend $50-100 for high-end carbide bits that cut like butter after I knew more about what I was buying.
But I think we need to level set here. In the world of router bits, at around $10 each, you can call these Bosch bits nothing if not "reasonably priced". You can easily spend $50 to $100+ on a single spiral up-cut bit. In that context, your advice of purchasing reasonably priced bits of a few common profiles (ones that you will find a use for) is spot on, and *this* set would be a nearly ideal example.
Besides, unless someone does the same exact thing day in and day out, no one "prefers" a 1/2" roundover to a 1/4" roundover, they both have their place. Indeed, few will cut enough mortises to ever justify buying even a cheap up-cut bit. But almost anyone with a router will eventually want to make the shapes formed by this selection of bits in this set.
It may sound like I have a dog in this game... I don't. It may sound like I own a bunch of Bosch stock, I don't. I actually prefer Whiteside bits. But when I first started playing around with routing (only a few years ago, I will admit), it was *this* set that saved me from throwing the whole endeavor into the trash. And it is this set that I still often return to when I want to, for example, run a quick roundover on a piece of stock. You mileage may vary, this is just my $.02
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One thing that I will complain about is the flush trim bit in 1/4" shank with the bearing on the collet side of the bit. Never made sense to me, even in a table application I prefer to have it flipped so I can see what I'm bearing against.
I bought a 15-bit set from MLCS (now hvalleytools.com) that's going strong years later... there are several bits I've never used. or used very infrequently, and for the price they work fine. And it made it a lot easier to spend $50-100 for high-end carbide bits that cut like butter after I knew more about what I was buying.
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I bought a 15-bit set from MLCS (now hvalleytools.com) that's going strong years later... there are several bits I've never used. or used very infrequently, and for the price they work fine. And it made it a lot easier to spend $50-100 for high-end carbide bits that cut like butter after I knew more about what I was buying.
But I think we need to level set here. In the world of router bits, at around $10 each, you can call these Bosch bits nothing if not "reasonably priced". You can easily spend $50 to $100+ on a single spiral up-cut bit. In that context, your advice of purchasing reasonably priced bits of a few common profiles (ones that you will find a use for) is spot on, and *this* set would be a nearly ideal example.
Besides, unless someone does the same exact thing day in and day out, no one "prefers" a 1/2" roundover to a 1/4" roundover, they both have their place. Indeed, few will cut enough mortises to ever justify buying even a cheap up-cut bit. But almost anyone with a router will eventually want to make the shapes formed by this selection of bits in this set.
It may sound like I have a dog in this game... I don't. It may sound like I own a bunch of Bosch stock, I don't. I actually prefer Whiteside bits. But when I first started playing around with routing (only a few years ago, I will admit), it was *this* set that saved me from throwing the whole endeavor into the trash. And it is this set that I still often return to when I want to, for example, run a quick roundover on a piece of stock. You mileage may vary, this is just my $.02
One thing that I will complain about is the flush trim bit in 1/4" shank with the bearing on the collet side of the bit. Never made sense to me, even in a table application I prefer to have it flipped so I can see what I'm bearing against.
If you're a hobbyist and will only end up using it once or twice a year you can probably get away with cheaping out with a set like this but just know that cheap bits get dull really fast, or worse, are much more likely to break. I have a 2in 4 blade surfacing bit I bought from Whiteside about 5 years ago and have used it in my router sled to surface countless end-grain cutting boards, slabs, table tops, etc. It still cuts like a hot knife through butter and it has never once needed to be sharpened.
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I found a Freud flush trim with a bearing on the top AND bottom, and use it almost more than anything else.
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