🔨 Enhance Woodworking Precision with Freud Vertical Raised Panel 99 320 Review

With a tall router table guard and three cuts per board, this router has done a great job with solid raised panels and red oak handrails.

This cutter is my first upright cutter with a raised plate. I built a fence much taller than a regular milled fence to provide extra support to keep the wood board on edge while cutting. Because this cutter is vertical it is much smaller than the equivalent horizontal cutter, so it works very well when using a smaller cutter motor. A horizontal router will likely require a 3hp router motor. Instead of the 2 1/4 hp I used and used. I recommend this attachment for typical milling work with raised

Less sharp than I'm used to from Freud's tools; it dangled a little on the hardwood. But it cuts MDF beautifully, for painted doors.

This bit has a very nice design. I make my living as a woodworker and have gotten to the point where I need a cutter; if Freud makes it, then I'll buy it.