Before this purchase I forgot what premium cutters are. I usually get by with inexpensive, smaller profile cutters. Their hardness and cutting precision work flawlessly and are mostly reusable. But when it comes to high performance cutters that are either large mass or large diameter like this Freud cutter - a big gun - hardness/cut is not as important as BALANCE. It's a huge bit, and any cheaper bit would rattle right out of the router table and shake screws, but not this pristine Freud bitβ¦