[Cherryville Chuck]

I like American style of wood furniture (no surprise, it is a great combination of different styles).

Hi Salavat and welcome. Western culture is the best there has ever been at stealing ideas and improving on them. Even our language is stolen from several others. And some of us speak metric fluently.

 

[Cherryville Chuck]

rumor control says that's the norm everywhere...

Everywhere but here in North America. Manufacturers can't lie about how many watts the input side is drawing. I would also like to see them list the output watts. Output watts / Input watts = Efficiency in %. Most of them are probably afraid of you finding out what that number is.

 

[Cherryville Chuck]

By the way - still not a word from Triton company... That is amazing... Really. Of course I would understand current situation, but.. not even dropping some general response 'we will answer you shortly blah blah.." really puzzles me.

Anyway, which part of the forum would be a good place to ask about router bits? Since I've got 1/2 inch collet router with more than enough power, completed with JET JRT-2 router table, I am looking into the bit's choice, particularly those big ones used for door making, for example. Also heard that 1/2 bits are cheaper than 12 mm ones, is it true?

You can ask here about bits Salavat. Whiteside router bits are among the best and are as competitively priced as most other major brands. Freud makes some of their bits with 4 cutting edges and they cut very smoothly (Quadracut by name). Freud probably also sells the most bits of all manufacturers. Amana makes very good bits but you need to make sure they are made in Israel and not China. I can show you examples of both and you would be able to recognize them from the examples.There is a cheaper brand which is very good for the price (which is quite a bit less in most cases) called Yonico but also go by the company name of Precision Bits. I'm not sure if all of those companies that you find will ship to Russia though. You would have to go to their sites or their dealer sites and see if they will. 1/2" bits probably are cheaper than 12mm because so many are made in 1/2" and 1/4" sizes for the North American markets.

 

[Cherryville Chuck]

Salavat one of the best ways to learn about bits is to go through manufacturer's catalogs. Some of them will show you a drawing of what that bit will make so that you can then look at the parts of furniture and see which bits were used to make them. Freud, CMT, Amana, and Whiteside all have good digital catalogs that you can download from the internet.

 

[Cherryville Chuck]

That's too bad Salavat but it's good you shared your experience with us. Now the rest of us know.