Favorite Forstner bit?

Colt Maxicut are hands down the best bits, however they’re very pricy. Buy you can purchase just the 7/8” bit if clean holes are important. Link

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Colt Maxicut are hands down the best bits, however they re very pricy. Buy you can purchase just the 7/8” bit if clean holes are important. Link

- builtinbkyn

Those were the ones I was looking at.

-- Trust me I'm an engineer.

Colt Maxicut are hands down the best bits, however they re very pricy. Buy you can purchase just the 7/8” bit if clean holes are important. Link

- builtinbkyn

Those were the ones I was looking at.

- mramseyISU

I purchased one – 2 1/4”. It cuts like a charm and doesn’t generate any heat. So no burning in difficult woods. They are expensive and a set is really expensive. I’ll pick them up individually as I need them to replace my very old and used Porter Cable bits.

-- Bill, Yo!......in Brooklyn & Steel City :)

Colt

I have one colt and I am going to convert them all one of these days.

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How deep?

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I have a super-cheap porter cable set too, but recently I needed to drill several 1-1/8” holes. I bought Amazon’s cheapest (CMT brand), which couldn’t even cut. I returned it and bought the Freud PB (Precision Shear) bit – it worked like a dream. Plowed 1.5” deep in red oak in my cheap DP, in a single plunge – didn’t even have to back out for chips.

-- I'd rather be a hammer than a nail

Sorry but I burnt way to many forstner bits with little 8” DP over the last 21-22 yrs until i FINALLY purchased a 20” DP from Grizzly. 21yr was ENOUGH. Wish I had done this 10 or20yr ago… Seriously! Just my two cents…

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."