Whatever quality your cutters - budget, mid-range or premium - you won't get the best out of them unless you keep them clean and their edges sharp. Dirty cutters with resin deposits on the blades will heat up when you come to use them next, dulling the cutting edges. A clean router cutter bit will always produce sharper, cleaner cuts so keeping your router bits clean should be a top priority. State-of-the-art CNC machines turn the plain billet of steel into the profile required for a particular cutter. The process ensures absolute precision to close tolerances for every cutter. 3) Milling

To clean router bits, begin by removing the bearing if it has one to avoid washing out the lubricant. A word of caution: brand new router cutters often have the bearings screwed on incredibly tightly so we recommend using a glove or piece of rag to save your fingers from getting scraped! The cleaned cutter now gets a smooth, even, surface coating of PTFE. One of the outstanding properties of this material is that very few solid substances can adhere to this coating. The coating effectively minimises resin and heat build-up on the cutter. 8) GrindingSand blasting removes any flux residue from the brazing process, as well as other contaminants, leaving a pristine, matt surface. 7) Coating If you want to get the most from your router cutters, regular router bit care and maintenance is essential. Here we explore some of the processes you should undertake to help ensure your router cutters always perform at their best. The third step in the production is to CNC mill the flats and recesses. The shape of the finished cutter now starts to emerge. 4) Carbide Tips

Next, use a small brush to brush off any loose dust. Once you've removed the excess residue and burnt-on deposits, use a rag wetted with a quality cleaning fluid to remove resinous deposits. Thankfully, a little goes a long way making the Axminster Bit & Blade Cleaner economical to use. It is designed to dissolve resin, pitch, goo, gunk, crud, gunge and other nasty residues. This special formula helps to maintain cutter performance and gets to work within 60 seconds. If you want your router cutters to last longer it is essential that you maintain them. Regular router bit care and maintenance will help to provide years of trouble free service; a little bit of TLC really does go a long way! This professional patented kitchen worktop jig is capable of 45° and 90° left or right hand joints in worktops with widths of 250, 300, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 616, 620-IKEA, 650 and 700mm. It enables you to make peninsular joints, corner radii of 40mm and 100mm, 90° square end cuts plus 45° and 22.5° angle cuts. There are also facilities for cutting 35mm cabinet door hinge recesses (18mm carcass), a hole for tap fixings 35mm (3/4" BSP) and three slots for 65mm and 150mm joining bolts.All Axcaliber TCT router cutters start life as a plain, cylindrical blank of SAE 4140 Chromium-Molybdenum, high tensile steel. Hardening and tempering to RC45 offers an ideal combination of strength and toughness along with abrasion and impact resistance. 2) Turning This router bit set from Bosch comprises 15 well chosen, high quality TCT router cutters. For anyone who owns a router that can take 1/4" shank cutters this is a handy set of 15 very useful bits. All 15 can be used in hand held routers, in routers fixed in tables. The preparation of the cutting tips is critical. Axcaliber router cutter tips use 99% pure, micro-grain, C2 or C3 tungsten carbide. This is characterised by its high strength, toughness as well as extreme hardness. Its hardness falls between 8.5 and 9.0 on the Mohs scale, almost as hard as diamond. 5) Brazing Credit subject to status and affordability. Terms and conditions apply. Axminster Tool Centre Ltd trading as Axminster Tools is a credit broker and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital UK PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Financial Services Register no. 704348.