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Hi my name's Kevin and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to talk to you about router
bits. There are an infinite number of router bits out there for just about any purpose
you can think of and just about every size and shape and profile that you can think of
and if there isn't you can get custom router bits made at certain places. So there's really
no limit to what shape you can put on a piece of wood and also jig up with whatever you
need to do. So I'm going to show you just a few of the different ones that are available
just to give you a broad spectrum. And what we have here is a rabbiting bit which rides
up against the wood on this bearing and then creates a rabbit with this blade right here.
These are flush trim bits which ride up against the wood on the bearing here and then this
blade which is a perfect plane with this bearing creates a flush surface. What we got here
is some detailing bits and these create coves, round overs, details which are generally used
for decoration, round overs on tables and fronts with the cove. Here's another round
over bit. We've got what's called a chamfer bit. This rides on the wood here and this
creates an angled profile on a table top drawers, many different things. We've got a dove tailed
bit here which used with a jig, you can do dove tails in drawers and then you move up
to these raised panel bits which generally go in a shaper, which is esentially a very
big router with a big steel table and these generally take out a lot of material and aren't
really done with a router this size, this needs a really big router for this. And generally
you want to do something like this with a shaper, but this is a raised panel bit for
like raised panel doors that you see in solid wood and bathrooms and kitchens and things
like that.