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Almost every bit set you're going to find in one of those catalogs includes a rabbeting bit and some bearings. Change the bearing size, and you change the width of the rabbet it cuts. The bearings enable a single bit to make cuts of perhaps half a dozen different widths. Most rabbeting bits come with one large bearing that's the same diameter as the cutter. This transforms the bit into a flush trimmer, for cutting veneers and laminates (lush with the substrate to which (hey have been attached.

Profiling bits me a ball bearing attached to Hie bit. or a fence attached to the router or • router table, to guide the cutter as it mills a decorative profile along the edge ol a board.

Most basic sets also include a dovetail bit. which may seem unnecessary unless you have a dovetail jig. However, even without the jig, a dovetail bit allows you to cut numerous joints, including sliding dovetails (which, by the way. are employed to great advantage for the shelves in Rick White's China Cabinet, featured elsewhere in this very issue).

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