[DaninVan]

Lana; LOTS of sign makers here...Phillip and others will sort this out for you! Sorry, I'm not a sign maker; can't really help, but yeh I'd be suspicious about the bit.
There are no stupid questions! There's a Hell of a lot to learn in woodworking, and routing in particular. It'd be great if we all had a private mentors but this forum may be as good as it's gonna get for most of us. I learn something new here every day...unfortunately they have to re-teach me after coffee breaks.

 

[DaninVan]

I was looking for sign carving bits and I realized you hadn't mentioned what you've actually got in the collet, Lana.
Could you please give more info on your bit? Maybe even a picture of it? If you can either scan an image or take a picture, upload to your hardrive (Desktop) then slide it over into the green bordered field below your comment, that'' be excelent.

 

[DaninVan]

From Lana's description it sounded like it went in OK but wouldn't advance horizontally without some serious pushing, to the point of not being able to accurately follow the design(?).