I am learning to Dovetail with a Leigh Super 12 and am starting to pick things up. Last night I got so excited at my success and forgot to slide the router out of guide pin clearance before lifting it out. ZZAMMOOO! Blew up my bit and shredded one guide pin. Picked some fragments of metal off my glasses. Soooo, while I don't need new eyes, fingers, arms, legs or toes I do need a new bit.
Leigh is out of stock on there bits and naturally will not recommend any other bits.
And of course they say that any bits without the "Exact Specifications" as their bits will "not work". And of course there are no bits with the "Exact Specifications" as their bits.
I suppose they would tell me I am an ugly American if I told them the Phfizer vaccine will not work anywhere but in the United States.
I am doing some half blind dovetails for small drawer boxes. In particular I have been using the Leigh 120-8 bit which is now out of stock everywhere.
I noticed Rockler has the same size bit with 8 degree angle rather then Leighs 14 degree angle. Anybody know of reasons why the 8 degree would not work in the jig VS the Leigh 14 degree bit???? Seems to me the only difference in theory should be the angle of the tail tips. 14 degrees VS 8 degrees in this case.
Any suggestions on this bit frontier would be extraordinarily appreciated.