🪚 Freud Carbide 2-Flute Compression Bit 77 208 Review

I like the way it cuts, it cuts very clean, quiet and produces fine shavings not fine dust. The bad thing is that it is very weak and breaks very easily. I used it for nesting and cut 8 sheets and shifted a small part which broke the cutter, my other cutters I use would just keep working. I cut 5 more sheets and the same thing happened so I was very disappointed as I use a lot of blades and a Freud bit I had high expectations for this bit.

I bought two of these bits for my little home shop. They cut through double-sided melamine 3/4 like butter without chipping. A word of caution though. Unlike other similar bits I've used, they leave small grooves in the material they cut. The teeth are offset side to side so I'm not sure why the groove is left. This is a recessed groove. So if you tape the edge or line it up with another piece of wood, it's never visible and can become a conduit for glue flow. However, if for some reason you…

This bit does exactly what I bought it for - cuts cleanly through plywood with 99% perfect edges and no Surface We used it to cut finished 1/2" and 3/4" thick maple plywood on the ShopBot and saw a slight crack on the surface with a nearly new cutter - went back and checked the settings and we accidentally did the first pass 1/4" deep - when cutting in multiple passes, the first pass should be > 1/4" deep (we chose 3/8") so that you can line the top surface with the "BOTTOM" " Cut part of…