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yfdgricker:
Here is the 1/16 bit and arbor I bought at Lowes for my cab for my T-molding.

1/16" T-Molding Slot Bit and Arbor
 - http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=227321-353-85526MC&lpage=none
 - http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=227316-353-92813C&lpage=none

The slot bit slides on the arbor and is locked in place with a nut. The arbor then gets inserted into the router. It is super easy. I dropped my cab on the side, rested the the router on the cabinet and adjusted the router and bit depth so that it was in the middle of the plywood I was using. It took maybe 15 minutes to route both sides of my cab, teh neon holes and the joystick control panel. All you essentially do is trace the cabinet outline with the router. Try it on a piece of scrap wood first and it will boost your confidence level up 100%. I was leary about cutting the -Tmolding groove myself but now I think it was one of the more fun parts of the cabinet building process.

The arbor is reuseable. just take off the nut and slide off the 1/16 slot bit. You can then put any other bit that has the same diameter center hole.
Havok:
Just make sure to route in the correct direction, otherwise you will burn the wood. Note the direction of the cutting surface of the bit, and route in the direction that it points...
RayB:
Considering the costs of tmolding, it's worth every penny. Makes a cab go from looking unfinished and ghetto, to professional.
fixedpigs:
why not just get the router bit all together when you get the t-moulding...?

http://www.tmolding.com/cart/customer/product.php?productid=38&cat=5&page=1

it's the same price roughly as hd or lowe's etc...
Havok:

--- Quote from: fixedpigs on June 26, 2006, 08:06:56 pm ---why not just get the router bit all together when you get the t-moulding...?

http://www.tmolding.com/cart/customer/product.php?productid=38&cat=5&page=1

it's the same price roughly as hd or lowe's etc...

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Ouch! - I got mine for $16 shipped at mlcs.
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