Pretty neat tool for setting router bits

[MilDoc]

Anytime I use the router table I wind up running several pieces of scrap through it to get the bit set just right. This Freud tool looks interesting for setting some of their more complicated bits:

http://www.ptreeusa.com/freud_easy_set.htm

[Ed62]

That's a pretty cool tool. Thanks for the link.

Ed

[footprintsinconc]

pretty cool! but i am not sure if i would spend that much on a tool to use only a couple of times a year.

[Bruce Cohen]

Gee,

Thanks for the link Doc, now I'll have to throw out all my Whiteside bits and get Freud's.

Bruce

[sweensdv]

Pretty neat little tool there. Unfortunately this little kicker is enough to stop me from considering one, "Works with selected Freud® router bits only." For those who prefer those selected Freud bits it would probably save a bunch of setup time.

[Uncle Cracker]

I have taken to numbering my router bits, and once I have the table set up on a particular bit, I just cut a small setup block out of high-density plastic, and put the corresponding number on it. Makes setting up the second time a snap, and is specific to the bit, not the manufacturer.

[mclear6]

where do you get high density plastic?

Other than ordering from a woodworking supply company, where else can you find high density plastic to help create router set up blocks?

[Greg.B]

I have taken to numbering my router bits, and once I have the table set up on a particular bit, I just cut a small setup block out of high-density plastic, and put the corresponding number on it. Makes setting up the second time a snap, and is specific to the bit, not the manufacturer.

+1 - Agreed

[Uncle Cracker]

Other than ordering from a woodworking supply company, where else can you find high density plastic to help create router set up blocks?

I get some of mine from a local surplus/scrap dealer, and I also score ever so often with cut-offs from a large sign company. You can use hardwood scraps, too, but I have humidity issues here in FL, so I trust the plastic ones more.

[footprintsinconc]

but I have humidity issues here in FL, so I trust the plastic ones more.

but wouldnt plastic expand with the heat there? and since it doesnt get cold there, wont it continuously keep expanding?

[Uncle Cracker]

but wouldnt plastic expand with the heat there? and since it doesnt get cold there, wont it continuously keep expanding?

Have had no problems with the plastic being unstable, although maybe it's just that the bits expand, too.

[MilDoc]

... I just cut a small setup block out of high-density plastic, and put the corresponding number on it....

Great idea! Hadn't heard that one before!

[Uncle Cracker]

Great idea! Hadn't heard that one before!

Thanks. Would love to take credit for it, but alas...

[steve-norrell]

Here is one source of UHMW plastic. But its expensive and four foot pieces would make a ton of set-up blocks:

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=897

I have had good luck with getting cut ends and small pieces from a local plastic shop.

The limited use of the Freud device, and its cost, rules it out.

Regards, Steve

[gad5264]

I have one of these that I got a few years ago at the wood show from the Sommerfeld booth. I like it and it works well with any manufacturers bits.