Freud ROUNDING OVER BIT

I used the Amazon search engine to find a 3/16" Quadra-Cut round over bit. The photos look very similar to the larger radius Quadra-cut round over bits so even though the product description doesn't call this a Quadra-cut, I thought it was. This bit did everything I needed. I was looking for a nice clean cut and this bit does that. The price should have been enough warning that it wasn't Quadra-cut.

I used the Freud Quadra-Cut 34-110 rounding-over bit on both maple and plywood and achieved noticeably superior edge quality with minimal tear-out. The four-cutter design produced a clean profile in one pass, and the Perma-Shield coating kept resin build-up to a minimum after several cuts. Setup in my table-mounted router was painless: I locked depth, made test cuts, adjusted feed until the finish looked mirror-smooth, then ran a batch of 20 pieces back-to-back without overheating or chatter. The bit held its sharpness and delivered consistent radius edges across varying thicknesses. If I had one caveat it’s that the ¼-inch shank requires an accurately tightened collet—any slop will degrade performance. Overall this bit upgraded my edge-work in both speed and finish quality.

After struggling with another carbide bit, this bit has cut over 200 feet of oak so far and still is sharp as the day I took it out of the package. (no tear out) I'm sold with the Quadra-Cut bit technology as the bit never loaded up for me and I ended up with a high quality cut.

The tip is fixed - rather than have a bearing, like all the other router bits i've had - which causes it to burn the wood and leave a black line.

These are expensive but they cut beautifully. The old saying "You get what you pay for" is true with Freud tools.