Amana Tool - 45475-S Carbide Tipped Flush Trim Plunge Template 3/8 Dia x 1/4 Sh

Cut fast, no kickback, easy to use.

I sliced the **** out of my finger when removing it from its sleeve and it wont stop bleeding. Super sharp, high quality bit

Hard to find size . Good quality. A little expensive, but not many other choices.

I love this template bit, and the other tools from this company that I have received. These are very sharp and clean cutting!

Durable, engineered and manufactured according to high standards. I use these great bits for mortising out hinges, strike plates, mostly, but they provide so many possibilities, with great accuracy, for a very reasonable price.

So I initially not happy because the cutting edge didn’t go all the way to the bearing… so if you have a thin template you can only cut about a 1/16” before stopping to trim the “lip” formed between the bearing and the cutting edge. Annoying, but not a deal breaker. Until the thing just snapped in half! I was routing an existing cavity slightly larger and wasn’t using much pressure. Maybe I just got a defective one, but I doubt it. The broken shaft was hollow!

The project Im working on requires that the bearing and the cutter be the exact same size..... The cutter is .005 smaller than the bearing causing too tight of a fit of the finger joints Im trying to fabricate.... Other than that the quality was very good....

I bought this bit to route multiple cavities in electric guitar bodies. I should have checked the overall length of this bit before I ordered, I assumed that it would be at least the same length of its smaller sibling, the one that it is just 1/4 diameter but this one is shorter. For the router table, if you have a thin insert you should be alright, I have a 3/4 inch MDF table and this will not clear that that distance with a 1/4 inch template at all, at least not if you follow the minimum insert distance that is marked on the bit. Using it with a plunge router is also a problem, even when removing the template youre always at the maximum reach of the bit. I just thought since the 1/4 inch diameter bit is considered a delicate toy bit, this one being bigger would be at least of the same length but its not :-/

This is my first Amana router bit, and wont be the last. Great carbide. Very sharp. I used in a pattern cut I was making for my grandson. Very clean. One of the shortest overall length router bits I have used too. Used it in a Bosch Colt router.

I was very excited to use this new bit. I started out by using another bit to remove all but maybe 1/4” deep then I was going to use my new bit to make the final pass. Plunged the bit in, made my cut and when I pulled up the router I saw the piece of blade among the sawdust in the new cut. It was maybe a 1/4” of wood, cut inside a small bow tie template and broke the first time, probably within 30 seconds. I’m disappointed because I have many templates that a need this small template bit for. Really hoping to find something i can use.