{"id":60,"date":"2004-07-06T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:09","slug":"a-router-bit-review-that-isnt-an-insult-to-your-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/a-router-bit-review-that-isnt-an-insult-to-your-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"A router bit review that isn&#8217;t an insult to your intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a good review on router bits recently.  A major woodworkers magazine that shall remain nameless (because I forgot its name) claimed to have done a comprehensive review on 12 brands of router bits.  Their conclusion?  More expensive bits cut better.  Saywhat?  That&#8217;s right, no number, no ranked list of results, not even a list of what brands were tested.  Just a looong section on methadology, and the conclusion that you should Fedex your visa card overnight to the good people at Carbide Anonymous and be thankful for it.  Bull.<br \/>\nSo when I stumbled on a non-moronic review of router bits yesterday I thought I should share.  It&#8217;s from Fine Woodworker, which is normally a little hoity-toity for my taste, but I can&#8217;t complain about solid, free info.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taunton.com\/finewoodworking\/pages\/w00045.asp\">Check it out<\/a>, and look for the little link that says &#8220;router bit scorecard&#8221; to get the actual dirt.  If you want the short-short version, it turns out that the yellow Oldham Viper bits they sell at the Depot are a solid deal (and, bonus, made in the USA).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(I haven&#8217;t bought any yet; I&#8217;ve got a couple of expensive Rockler bits I acquired with a secondhand router table purchase&#8211;which ironically performed near the bottom of the pack in this review.  I&#8217;ll post something when I&#8217;ve tried them out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a good review on router bits recently.  A major woodworkers magazine claimed to have done a comprehensive review on 12 brands of router bits.  Their conclusion?  More expensive bits cut better.  Saywhat?  So when I stumbled on a non-moronic review of router bits yesterday I thought I should share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}