Help Finding Router Bit - Please!
I need help finding a source for a router bit. Sorry this has nothing to do with a bit used on my ShopBot. But I can't find the bit anywhere. I have used this bit off and on over the last 10 years. A friend gave it to me and he doesn't remember where he got it (although it was online) but he did not have it custom made.
Through my searches I have only been able to find the bit in one place. It was yellow (the one I have is black) but it looks like the same bit. The source was Arden Precision Technology. To purchase they referred me to a "company" in the states. I spoke with the owner of the company, who said he's the distributor in the US for Arden. But - he said he was retired, just started the business, stores the bits in his garage, has no website and doesn't plan to set one up in the next year, answered the phone with a "Hello" instead of a company name, and told me he was busy at the moment and asked if he could call me back the next day. That was a week ago. Subsequent calls to him, and another email to Arden, have gotten zero response.
Normally I have no problem buying bits or tools out of someone's garage. But I am writing a magazine article on a piece I am building (it's a how-to article) and I need to be able to provide the readers a real source to buy the different bits I am using for the article. The others are standard (chamfer, etc.) but this one has me stumped. It was poor planning on my part but I've made the parts, taken the pictures, etc. for the article. Now I can't find a source for the bit. I've got to provide a website for folks to buy it not some guy's garage phone number.
I've always called it a Chippendale molding bit. I use it to for legs, mostly on chairs and benches. When run on two edges of a leg it creates a bead on the outside corner. It's a 1/2" shank and has 2 inches of carbide cutting length. The shank says Taiwan P14-3614. Arden has it as 362491. But those numbers have not been helpful in my searches.
If anyone has any idea where I might find a source I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks so much for your time.
Thane Lorbach
Cincinnati
thanelorbach@gmail.com
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