Router Bit Terms
- Bead: A small rounded raised profile routed on the edge of a work piece. Bead bits
are common in furniture projects.
- Bevel Cut: A cut made at an angle through a piece of work piece. Sometimes
called chamfer cuts. Most have a profile bearing on them for edge work. RTD uses
this bit for beveled edges on custom router tables.
- Biscuit Joint: A type of glue joint in which an oval-shaped biscuit covered with a
glue is placed in slots cut in the edges of wood. The two pieces are clamped
together, and the glue causes the biscuit to swell and create a tighter glue joint.
Excellent for joining pieces together for larger projects.
- Blind Hole Routing: A method of routing in which the bit does not go all the way
through the work piece. A keyhole bit is a good example of this.
- Chamfer: (1)A beveled edge, technically one of 45 degrees. (2) A beveled cut
made along the length of the edge of a board. These bits come in several different
diameters.
- Cove: A concave profile cut into the edge of the work piece.
- Dado: (1)A flat bottomed recessed cut made across the grain of a board. (2)A type
of groove joint. Commonly made by straight bits without profile bearings.
- Dovetail Joint: A method of jointing wood at the corners through interlocking pins
and tails. Dovetails have no profile bearings on them and come in several different
sizes.
- Finger Joint: A joint in which a series of fingers, or tenons, are cut into the ends of
the two pieces of material to be joined. These are typically used to join long thin
pieces of stock together (molding).
- Fluting: Concave half round decorative molding profiles.
- Groove: A cut made with the grain of a board. Similar to dado.
- Kerf: In slot cutters, the width of the cutting edge.
- Lock Miter: A type of joint made by fastening together interlocking parts with ends
cut at an angle. Takes two cuts to complete the joint.
- Molding Bit: A decorative profile usually used for trim work, to cover exposed
edges or provide decoration. These are larger bits and need to be slowed down to
use safely.
- Mortise: A round or rectangular hole cut into a piece of wood to accept a tenon.
Also used to recess hardware such as hinges.
- Ogee: A decorative molding profile with a S shape, generally used for edge forming
applications.
- Piloted Bit: A router bit with a ball bearing above the cutter that keeps the bit a
fixed distance from the edge of the material being routed.
- Rabbet: An open ended cut made along the edge of a work piece that receives
another piece to form a joint. Rabbet bits come in several different sizes.
- Runout: (1)The amount of wobble in a router bit, or how much the bit moves from
left to right during use. (2)The splintering and jagged edges left by lesser quality
router bits.
- Slot Cutter: A cutting tool used to make slots, rabbets, dadoes, lap joints and
tongue and groove joints. Excellent for making biscuit joints. Generally come in two
and three bladed varieties.
- Veining: The process of patterning with, or as if with, veins.
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