Enquiring minds….
Just cleaning up and on a whim counted up my router bits.
I don’t use the routers very often.
So counted while I cleaned. Not counting trimmers, have 39 bits.
Is this pathetically small, normal or an over the top amount?
What’s your average? What do you have the most of? All colors count 🙂
Surprised FWW hasn’t done a poll on this.
Boiler
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140 in the spots their supposed to be in, a few more loose. All Bosch.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot
OOH RAH!That's some bits there boss.
Must be like marshalling a little army.Boiler
You would have me go looking! I just found another 18 in a drawer. I need to go get another multi drawer cabinet before I forget them again.
I realized while looking through them that I recently bought one I already had.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot
Those 18...deserters?
And how many have you, or do you use on a somewhat regular basis, I wonder.
ASK
Well lets see . . . there are the three shown here (one in the router ) and then there is the second narrow one that I ground even narrower . . . I count four. : )
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roc
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 4/15/2009 9:52 pm by roc
I always seem to have one or two less than I need. ;-)
Ralph,Same here. New occurance (for me)just last week though. Had to have a special size made up by Whiteside. Wonder if I'll ever use it a second time. As to the rest, now I wonder when I look at em if I didn't see a bit or it's just a creeping case of CRS.Boiler
I don't know how many bits, I do have 17 routers.
Tom
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Now there's a thought!
Is that where you store your bits?
I'm going to have to get more routers.
Dgreen will have to get a new shed.Boiler
I'm feeling inadequate. That man has as many routers as I have bits.
-Steve
>as many routers as I have bits.I almost asked "How many of them still work ?" : )rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 4/19/2009 7:09 am by roc
I can muster 45 bits, four routers, two fences and one router table on a good day.The 'lectric stuff gets deployed when there's a time factor.
Tom,I always joked routers are like clamps, you can never have too many of them, but whoa seventeen routers, that's a lot of routers...
Edited 4/19/2009 9:09 am ET by BOBABEUI
Bob,
It is not something I am proud of , I have since received therapy and can safely state that there will not be an 18th router.
Tom.
That's quite a herd, I'm feeling deprived with only nine.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot
Have you seen the new Feswalt? 46,000rpm variable to zero with a variable collar clutch from dremmel size to 1' concrete trimmers.
It comes with a payment schedule so you can hide the payments from SWMBO.
Comes in candy apple red.
Dustless
3 phase
watercooled
Articulated for locking into a horizontal plunge mode
also has a gimble for radial circle cutting when in lathe mode
a must have for any serious woodburner.
Edited 4/20/2009 10:12 am by boilerbay
Boil,
As a matter of fact I have , I called Feswalt to prod them for more details. I must say, tightlipped bunch over there... I did get this little tidbit though, All the features you mentioned less the 3 phase instead powered by a twin turbo micro diesel therefor making it cordless. My fingers are crossed.
Tom.
cordless is good!
5 router, 43 bits.
I have since received therapy and can safely state that there will not be an 18th router.
Liar! LOL (joking so don't get offended)
Don,Looks like your army is still in charge of the field!BoilerHow many redundant PC collets though?
I guess I will be skewing the poll results.
0 bits
0 routers (not counting my Stanley #71).
Sounds about right to me. Often times I'll have three routers set up at a time for 1 project, 4 or 5 standing by for laminate trimming, a couple in the router table, 4 or 5 mounted up in jigs,
As for router bits, I lost count long ago, but I betcha it'son the high side of 200, buncha duplicates of course.
Router bits is more prolific than rabbets! gotta keep em in seperate cages!
Eric
Thanks Eric I feel some what normal now. Cowtown? I'm guessing Ft Worth.
Tom.
Edited 4/19/2009 8:19 am ET by gofigure57
Nope- it's Cowtown Alberta (calgary)
just mounted one of the extra laminate trimmers on a spare zero clearance blank for the table saw so that I could use a sled to cut gear teeth for that wicked box joint jig . Found the router bits to cut the profiles in the stash.
cut 30,40,12,16 tooth gears.
good thing I hadn't thrown them out eh?
I have about 46, mostly 1/2" shank, at least a dozen are straight bits.
Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
(soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Didn't realize I had so many until you asked, 72 plus a dozen or more in storage. The majority are yellow, probably Carbtech from Woodworkers Supply back when they were in town. There's a few I hardly ever use but most of them are put to work regularly. Out of a dozen brands, I can't say any are necessarily better than others, the old HSS Craftsman's being the exception which are in a dark corner somewhere.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
Your right you clean up a little and you find all kinds of treasures that you forgot about (I found new ones that have never been used), 83 router bits that I counted and there is probably a few stragglers (not sure about your shop, but they go in hiding around here until the day after you where looking for them), about half green LV the rest are a mixed up lot. I have only four router's though and after reading this, that is probably not enough in ratio with the number of bits I have.
Let's see.... 8 bits that I use on a regular basis plus duplicated of some of them so I don't have to stop in the middle of a job to purchase a new bit plus another dozen I use on a semi-irregular basis plus a few that were purchased for one special job or another. So... bottom line... 30 pieces. If they can't be sharpened, I give them away or toss them. All of various brands plus a few custom-made ones.
SawdustSteve Long Island, NY (E of NYC)
50-60 bits, 5 routers.
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