Freud 99-036: 1-3/4" (Dia.) Adjustable Tongue & Groove Bit Set

Amazing quality. I am so glad I got these. A little tricky to set up the first time but I think they will be pretty plug and play after. My new garage cabinets are going to look amazing and match the interior cabinets throughout the rest of the house. These are the only bits I buy. I love their large selection of 1/2 inch bits as that is all I like to use now.

This is one freaky MONSTER honking router bit!!! I'm sure my neighbors heard it a quarter mile away. So you better have a big solid honking router to handle it and you better be a man or at least a woman with some spiritual cojones. I consider myself a fairly advanced woodworker... I've made a lot of cabinets... and some furniture like kitchen carts and coffee tables... hard maple... but I wouldn't say heirloom furniture just quite yet... I don't have a permanent shop, just my garage, so I guess I'm a weekend warrior that way. I'm sharing this just so you can compare your level to mine. Anyway, I used this bit in my Bosch router mounted on my Bosch router table to cut lock miter joints for 7 newel posts made of 1" thick red oak...52" long...lots of joints! That isn't a nominal thickness, the actual true thickness is 1" and red oak is pretty hard and can be prone to being a little brittle as well when being cut so I consider this a good test. There are definitely harder woods, but I wasn't joining pine. This was my first time using a lock miter bit and I think it has gone well. The joints fit without forcing and close tightly. I glued one this afternoon... will report back if it's not perfect but it looks pretty good from what I can see so far. The wood was purchased rough sawn. I ran it through a thickness planer to get it down to my desired thickness, then cut to oversize length for the newel posts, then hit each piece with a jointer on one edge to get one nice straight square edge. Then cut to width on a table saw. Then the router comes in... Regarding setup, I advise first time users (like me) to visit youtube and watch several different videos. Different people have different techniques. Setup blocks wouldn't work for me because of my stock thickness being non standard. The setup jigs seem to be made for 3/4 or 1/2 stock. I think even if you used a setup block you'd still be well advised to make test cuts to prove it's right. I just made cuts until it was right, making very small adjustments to height and depth until the joint was right. I'm planning to burnish or hit it with a small radius roundover to finish the edge anyway.. Once you get it right, DON'T MOVE THE DEPTH SETTING and don't move the fence until you mark the final position carefully so you can get back to it! That said, I marked the fence position and then adjusted for a shallower depth of cut. I first tried about half depth, but had a lot of chatter. This bit chops out big hunks of wood and my shop vac wasn't clearing them from the cut zone very well so they were getting pulled back into the cutting bit and causing havoc!! I ended up making the miters in 4 passes. Yes, more time, but no chatter and nice smooth cuts. Trust me, you don't want ripple cuts! Easy does it. I found that having the shop vac at the top vacuum outlet helped to keep the cut zone clear, but the vast majority of the chips went DOWN inside the router table base. I had to clean it out every 6 cuts. That's more because of my router table than this bit, so no stars lost. After each pass I moved the fence back a little. The final cut was about 1/8" of fence, which was pretty light. I wanted it that way to ensure a nice smooth finish cut. Try to make that finish cut in one smooth pass. Making a double pass will take off more than you want... don't do that. I tried it. I know. One smooth careful final pass. Perfecto! After 7 newel posts in red oak, 52" long, 8 edges per post, 4 passes per edge... that's 7 x 4 x 8 x 52" = 11648" of cut... or 971 feet... nearly 0.2 miles... geez, I didn't realize it was that much! Anyway, the finalfinish cuts are smooth. Fast. Neato! Good bit! Bravo Freud!

This Entry & Interior Door Router Bit System really done the the job for me. If you're planning to build a door I wouldn't try to go with anything of less quality. I have been able to make multiple doors with this router bit system and these router bits have never let me down. They are actually high value for the money if you want, not just reliability, but also durability, and great results.

Nice cutter. Quick post.

Looks good seems to be a good quality. Have not tried it yet