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Fellow woodworkers,
I have seen a lot of references to the MLCS site, so I decided to give it a look. Made a search (Triplewing router bits) on this site, and came up with nothing.
I have a 3 blade razor and it is great!
Next month, I am going to get a lot of them. They also have some really good stuff. Check it out and let all of your fellow woodworkers know your opinion of the Triplewing.
Bud

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Joe Lyddon

I just did a Search on the MLCS site for them and found:
http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shops...riplewing.html

The prices appear to be inline to me... Oh, "Introductory" prices...

Maybe you missed something...??

bobj3

Hi Bud

I have some of the Triplewing bits and they are great bits, the one I recommend is the TripleWing™ Raised Panel Bits they are safer than the two wing type and cut better.

But many of the standard bits do come as the 3 wing type as the norm i.e. slot cutters,some T & G sets,box joint sets,etc. you may want to check out the link(s) below for some great deals on bits.

http://stores.ebay.com/Super-Carbide-Tools
http://cgi.ebay.com/1-PC-1-2-SH-5-Sl...QQcmdZViewItem

Bj

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Charles M

Bj,

Not to sound contentious, but would you explain the rationale for this?

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bobj3

Hi Charles

If I have a 10" saw blade that has 40 carb.tips and I want a nice clean cut I would use one that has 80 carb. tips .
If that's true it should be true for router bits also. yes ?

I guess I should say something about being safer also,if you have less voids in the cutting tool this sounds safer to me because most of the big bits turn at slower speeds less of a chance of jaming/caching.
Something like hack saw blades .

Bj

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Mike

BJ, I follow your logic on these questions. Isn't there also a trade off of having less metal supporting the carbide blades? Using the logic that the more teeth the smoother the cut it seems like we should all be using 4 fluted milling cutters instead of 2 fluted carbide bits. We have seen evidence that the spiral cutters do provide a cleaner cut by shearing rather than ripping the wood. Again there has to be a trade off since more flutes remove less material per flute per cut. I confess that the engineering on this leaves my head spinning. Perhaps one of our members is an engineer who can provide more insight on this subject? I always enjoy learning. Good post.

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Joe Lyddon

This is reminding me of the evolution of the Gillette Safety razor blade(s)...
There was only one blade for years...

... then TWO! ... twice as better than ONE!... what the first one missed, the second would get!

How many are we up to now... 3, 4, or 5?

When will it end?

Just kidding...

But, if the first blade doesn't cut it all, and there is time for the stuff to raise up for the second blade, the second is actually going to be able to cut the leftovers from the 1st? Going at that relative speed? Might be surprising.

bobj3

Hi Joe

This gets me thinking, I have a Lazer tac I going to try and read the speed on some elec.razors I have and see if they slow the blades down to do the job.
It's not the Gillette type but it got me going.
one head and 3 head types.

Bj

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bobj3

Hi Mike

I think speed is the key to mill ends or to say feed rate and what you are milling.
And how cool you keep the cutter,the cutting edge can go away in a heart beat.
But Like you I would like to know for sure.

Bj

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Joe Lyddon

Now, does this make sense...?

Given a router bit with 3 cutting edges on it...
It spins at thousands of RPM...
The distance between each cutter has to be insignificant at that speed... yes?
If the 1st cutter is sharp, isn't it doing all of the cutting and the rest merely keep the whole thing in balance spinning smoothly... while the the other 2 cutters are just spinning, doing nothing!?

Could it be that it's just a 'gimmick' to sell more product?
(do those extra blades really cut any hair or just scrape your skin for blood?! )