Mark,
When are you going to get a Router and join the fun?!
I too went the normal route... eBay for sets of cheap goodies... just to find out that I wouldn't use most of them...
keyword: "most" BUT it gave me an economical way to determine what I really wanted to use... I
could use a variety to 'test' the waters, so to speak.
Thanks to learning from watching
The Router Workshop, I am learning more of what to concentrate on and how to use them.
I am still using the cheapie stuff (but not as a heavy diet...) at a Hobby rate...
As I reach out with more projects where router work is desired, I am increasing my bit count with quality bits that will do a good job... longer and safer.
I recently ordered a small handful of bits and spent more on them than I had spent on all bits to date!! I will know that I have quality that will last and do a good job for me... rather than cheapies that will get dull fast, possibly break, and just end up as an unsafe tool... the cheapies have served their purpose.
When the dust settles, I think I will be able to say that I will have maybe around 15 quality bits. (I will just keep the cheapies to let them do what have done with newer bits that I haven't used yet)
If I were to do it all over again, knowing what I knew when I started out, I would do the same thing... It has worked... so far...
OK Mark, when are you going to take the first step... with a router?
... a Hitachi, Triton, Bosch, or what?
