Here at Farris Belt & Saw Company, we have been working with a wide variety of power tools for several years, ranging from saws and belt sanders to routers. Routers are used to remove material from the surface or profile of a work piece, allowing you to carve various shapes into a flat plane or round over the edges of the piece.
To allow workers to achieve clean lines and shapes, routers are equipped with sharp cutting bits that rotate at high speeds. Like all other blades, router bits will get dull over time and will need to be sharpened. In this article, our team will go over a few signs you need router bit sharpening services.
- Resistance – One sign you should use our router bit sharpening service is if you notice increased resistance with your router. When your router bit is sharp, it will be easy to feed material past the blade, and you should have no trouble operating the router smoothly. If you start to feel resistance when feeding the router, then we encourage you to get your bit sharpened as soon as possible.
- Rough Finish – Another sign you need router bit sharpening is if you notice a rough finish on your work piece. A sharp router bit will create a smooth cut, but a dull one will result in a rougher finish.
- Tear Outs – Lastly, if you start to experience tear-outs when using your router, you should schedule router bit sharpening services as soon as possible. When the router bit gets dull, the blade will stop cutting material cleaning but will instead pull it out in chunks, which can ruin the whole work piece. Fortunately, our team has the right experience to restore your router bit to razor sharpness.