Router Bit For Carved Top

[gitCAD]

hi

its more because it just came back to my mind then that I would need it right now.

Ever since I saw the router bit in the followed pic, I was wondering how they're called and where you get them and what kind of shank size they can have. I was wondering that any fretboard radiusing or top carving that you would do (CNC or plunge router) would need such a bit, once you are clear with the jig - doesn't it ? I am asking seriously

And I would not mind if this thread would turn into a "what router bit for what action" one - the router bit tutorial thread as such - I personally know the roundover and

flush trim bits for guitar building - this one seems a very important other - whats its name please

sorry for the quality - I hit the screenshot button during a transition

[Maiden69]

I think that the bit in question is not the important fact here, but the machine that it is attached too. If it is not a CNC is some sort of duplicarver. a bit like this won't help you more than a round tip bit, unless you have some sort of jig or machine to do the carving.

[gitCAD]

a bit like this won't help you more than a round tip bit,

what I quoted is what I already learned - the pic obviously showes a CNC , I was wondering in the first place what bit to carve a top kind of steady with, since carving from lets say left to right would not make the bit touch more of the wood then the actual "rounded tip" - so the rounding has to be the sharp part of it, even if it flush cuts as well - no?

Where do you find this kind of rounded tip bits - I never came across those - the one in the pic is most probably custom made

[jay5]

Roundnose bit

I apologize, but your post is really hard to follow. I think this is what you are looking for, but I am still not sure what you are trying to accomplish

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[Maiden69]

Roundnose bit

I apologize, but your post is really hard to follow. I think this is what you are looking for, but I am still not sure what you are trying to accomplish

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I'm with jay here. Kinda hard to understand what you wanted to know, and routing with your hand router, or even table router a carve top is "highly" difficult unless you have a lot of templates or a way to make the routed follow the lines, a small slip, os a knot in the wood you didn't see will make the router wander, and idf it goes to the inside of the belly, well is re-topping time.

[gitCAD]

hello

first, sorry for showing up late - I did nor get a reply notice anymore ...

Its a bit embarrassing - I did not know I was so hard to understand.

I did not have the knowledge of how a "roundnose bit" or "round tip" bit was called.

It seems very obvious now, but I have never seen them in the woodcrafter and stewmac catalogue, so I didn't know

I was not thinking so much of the hand router (even though I mentioned it) as of a table cnc and the workprocess of carving e.g. a Les Paul top. Lets say you have everything set up, the "model" in the computer and the code to start the router .....

You still would want to know what kind of bit you put in it, so that when the maschine starts its steps, it would compensate those vertical steps and cuts to the horizontal without creating steps in the wood

It was all just about the bit as seen on the pic and its name - thats all - a newbie question on the right router bit for curved guitar tops

Thank you for you help and sorry for the confusion