Router Rabbet bit recommendation (is it rabbit or rabbet?)

[Hmerkle]

I have a CMT 1/2 rabbet bit with a stack of bearings.

I want to get a 1/4 rabbet bit with bearings, but know there is varying quality out there...

SUGGESTIONS? (BRAND OR STYLE)


Oh, BTW:
A RABBIT is a furry thing that hops around.
A Rabbet is a step-shaped recess cut along the edge or in the face of a piece of wood

 

[Eric G]

Whiteside Bits. High quality and also right here in NC. Looks like they have many options for rabbet bits.

rabbet

Home of Industrial Grade Router Bits & Drilling Tools. Family Owned and Operated. American Owned and Operated. Committed to Quality and a Superb Product Line.

www.whitesiderouterbits.com

 

[Martin Roper]

Oh, BTW:
A RABBIT is a furry thing that hops around.
A Rabbet is a step-shaped recess cut along the edge or in the face of a piece of wood

Curiously, in the UK it's a rebate.

 

[cpw]

In British English a rabbet is a "rebate." Without doing any research I would think that is stems from the idea of reducing or cutting back from the whole of whatever the thing is, whether a sum or a block of wood.

Rebate plane Archives - Paul Sellers' Blog

Sorry I don't have a bit recommendation. Up to this point I've been using the cheaper ones I can obtain locally.

 

[Hmerkle]

Whiteside Bits. High quality and also right here in NC. Looks like they have many options for rabbet bits.

rabbet

Home of Industrial Grade Router Bits & Drilling Tools. Family Owned and Operated. American Owned and Operated. Committed to Quality and a Superb Product Line.

www.whitesiderouterbits.com

Thanks Eric,
I know Klingspor (@woodworkingshop.com )sells Whiteside and figured that would be my "go-to" or "back-up" and maybe I am going to find that is the #1 choice... but my first step is to "Poll the knowledgeable audience" here on NCWW!

This looks like a pretty good option for $60: https://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/w1952/

Anyone else have a better suggestion?

 

[Hmerkle]

O.K so here is another recommendation from a different site;

https://smile.amazon.com/CMT-835-001-11-Rabbeting-4-Inch-Shank/dp/B000P4O5CU/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=CMT+1%2F4-Inch+Shank+Rabbeting+Router+Bit+Set&qid=1611940690&sr=8-5

but "my friends" have not weighed-in on this one...

 

[FredP]

Rabbet bits are for wood
Rabbit bits are for eating.
I know stuff

 

[Hmerkle]

Rabbet bits are for wood
Rabbit bits are for eating.
I know stuff

Keep trying to convince us!

 

[LocoWoodWork]

+1 for Whiteside

 

[Pop Golden]

Me too on Whiteside.

Pop

 

[Mike Davis]

Stanley #78 rabbet plane.

 

[Hmerkle]

Stanley #78 rabbet plane.

I am thinking of edgebanding (veneering a table top) the one I am thinking of will be round... I don't think my 78 289 would work for that??
(you saw that braggadocious correction right?!)

 

[Oka]

Rabbet- "Rectangular groove cut out of the edge of a piece of wood or stone so that it may join by lapping with others," late 14c., from Old French rabat "a recess in a wall, a lower section," literally "a beating down," a back-formation from rabattre "to beat down, beat back" . The verb is attested from mid-15c. (implied in rabetynge).
Rebate- Early English origin - late 14c., "to reduce;" early 15c., "to deduct, subtract," from Old French rabattre "beat down, drive back," also "deduct," from re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + abattre "beat down". Meaning "to pay back (a sum) as a rebate"

....... Married to a Linguist

 

[Canuck]

https://smile.amazon.com/Freud-Rabbeting-interchangeable-bearings-32-504/dp/B0000225ZR/ref=psdc_3116541_t1_B00004T7FE

I have been using this Freud set foe over ten years and had no issues.
Wayne

 

[Hmerkle]

https://smile.amazon.com/Freud-Rabbeting-interchangeable-bearings-32-504/dp/B0000225ZR/ref=psdc_3116541_t1_B00004T7FE

I have been using this Freud set foe over ten years and had no issues.
Wayne

I think I have one of those when Lowe's was closing out the Freud bits, again, only in 1/2"...

 

[Yelverton]

I've been buying bits from MLCS (www.mlcswoodworking.com) - the prices are great and I have no complaints at all about the quality.

 

[McRabbet]

Rabbet- "Rectangular groove cut out of the edge of a piece of wood or stone so that it may join by lapping with others," late 14c., from Old French rabat "a recess in a wall, a lower section," literally "a beating down," a back-formation from rabattre "to beat down, beat back" . The verb is attested from mid-15c. (implied in rabetynge).
Rebate- Early English origin - late 14c., "to reduce;" early 15c., "to deduct, subtract," from Old French rabattre "beat down, drive back," also "deduct," from re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + abattre "beat down". Meaning "to pay back (a sum) as a rebate"

....... Married to a Linguist

Good definitions, but remember that a woodworker with Scottish ancestry might be named "McRabbet"

 

[Hmerkle]

Good definitions, but remember that a woodworker with Scottish ancestry might be named "McRabbet"

Hey no fair making us laugh and not weighing in on the bit brand question

 

[bob vaughan]

For mail-order router bits, I've been going to Infinity. I've always been amazed at how sharp they get their carbide edges.
Getting a bit from a store like Klingspoor is always good form. We need them.

 

[Hmerkle]

For mail-order router bits, I've been going to Infinity. I've always been amazed at how sharp they get their carbide edges.
Getting a bit from a store like Klingspoor is always good form. We need them.

Thanks Bob,
I checked and the infinity Tools 1/4" rabbet set is $54.90 and since I don't know the manufacturer, for $5, I'll stick with Klingspor / Whiteside, but appreciate the source for future searches!