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Wood and Plastic Industry Tooling Terms and Definitions:
Up Shear Router Bit:
Designed as a general purpose spiral where quality of chip extraction is important. The spiral is designed to remove the chip in an upwards direction away from the cutting process, ensuring quality of cut, extended tool life and better debris removal into the collection systems.
Fiberglass, phenolic, acetal, solid surface and aluminum slab as well as solid wood and plywoods.
Down Shear Router Bit:
Designed as a general purpose spiral where quality of chip extraction is important. The spiral is designed to remove the chip in an upwards direction away from the cutting process, ensuring quality of cut, extended tool life and better debris removal into the collection systems.
Fiberglass, phenolic, acetal, solid surface and aluminum slab as well as solid wood and plywoods.
Compression Router Bit:
Compression style has both up cutting flutes at the tip of the bit and down cutting flutes at the shank side of the bit. This allows for both clean top and bottom surfaces on your materials. It compresses the chips into the center of the bit. This makes it especially great for plywood, veneers, natural wood laminates, and MDF when you need both the top and bottom edges clean. You just have to make sure that the piece of material you are cutting is thick enough so that both ends of the bit have room to work. Compression style bits are designed for fast feed rates in most materials. D
Mortise Compression Router Bit:
A compression router bit with a much reduced up shear portion for thinner materials. Typically one third of a standard compression up shear solid carbide router bit.
Up Shear Router Bit:
Designed as a general purpose spiral where quality of chip extraction is important. The spiral is designed to remove the chip in an upwards direction away from the cutting process, ensuring quality of cut, extended tool life and better debris removal into the collection systems.
Fiberglass, phenolic, acetal, solid surface and aluminum slab as well as solid wood and plywoods.
Down Shear Router Bit:
Designed as a general purpose spiral where quality of chip extraction is important. The spiral is designed to remove the chip in an upwards direction away from the cutting process, ensuring quality of cut, extended tool life and better debris removal into the collection systems.
Fiberglass, phenolic, acetal, solid surface and aluminum slab as well as solid wood and plywoods.
Compression Router Bit:
Compression style has both up cutting flutes at the tip of the bit and down cutting flutes at the shank side of the bit. This allows for both clean top and bottom surfaces on your materials. It compresses the chips into the center of the bit. This makes it especially great for plywood, veneers, natural wood laminates, and MDF when you need both the top and bottom edges clean. You just have to make sure that the piece of material you are cutting is thick enough so that both ends of the bit have room to work. Compression style bits are designed for fast feed rates in most materials. D
Mortise Compression Router Bit:
A compression router bit with a much reduced up shear portion for thinner materials. Typically one third of a standard compression up shear solid carbide router bit.