On Jan 12, 5:25*pm, "
wrote:
On Jan 12, 1:20*pm, "Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

I would throw my pride out the window and go buy some
flooring.

But one person's task is another's recreation.

Only until you have to have the bits replaced or if they are good
ones, resharpened.

IIRC, Pat Warner said (excuse me if I get this wrong!) that the
average router bit will go about 250' before sharpening.

Now... think about 1" thick HARD maple that has been drying for 8
years. *Think how hard that stuff must be. *And at one inch thick,
I'll bet you don't get far without a resharpening.

The of course, since you are going with such thick material it is an
excellent idea to relieve the back with some grooves to help keep it
in check when it moves. *How many more bits would that burn up?
Looking around, just buying the male/female bits could be a few
hundred bucks.

If you really want to make your own, go to your local flooring store
and check out their profiles, then take into consideration the
thickness of your material. *You can get an idea of what you need to
do from a quality floor manufacturer/supplier.

Robert

Well put, Robert. My Royce-Ayr rep drops off these cool catalogues
with all kinds of industrial tooling devices. Some of the tools
designed for flooring companies are serious, and I mean serious money.
Those kind of customers don't buy tools because they are black and
green and are reviewed by toolophiles in niche-market magazines.

It happens often enough that the "I can do that" syndrome rears its
ugly little head, and little thought goes into the fact that a $ 30.00
Freud profile routerbit CAN make a similar edge like a $4500.00 head
on a 30 HP moulder/sticker.. it just won't make more than 50 feet of
the stuff.
I have seen a 12' foot slab of oak with a nice profile on one end of
the board and a major burn on the other end.

You can haul garbage with a SmartForTwo, just not very much of it.