hi, my name is kevin, and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to show you how to use a rabbeting bit. a rabbeting bit is a bitthat has a cutter head here and a bearing up here, so once again, the bearing is goingto ride on our surface that we want to keep, and this is going to cut away what we don'twant. and the application that you would use this for is if you were going to cut a rabbeton the back of a cabinet for a back to go
woodworking router applications, into, or an application we're going to usetoday, a really good one for it, is cutting a groove in the back of a picture frame forthe glass or the actual artwork to fit right into. and so what it's going to do, is it'sgoing to cut a channel here and then we're going to come around here and cut it here,so that there's still wood left on the front,
but there's this channel all the way aroundthe back for the glass, or whatever you'd be, plastic, or whatever you'd be puttinginto the frame to rest onto after you've glued it up. so it makes it a convenient just one-stepprocess as opposed to setting up a table saw and doing this before hand and doing multiplestop set-ups. this would be just one pass on all the corners, but we just have one cornerthat we'll be doing to show you.okay, as you can see we've made the cut, we've established that channel around here. if you'reputting in a square piece of glass, all you're going to want to do here is just take a straightedge and extend these lines out and just clean up that round corner with a chisel to makeit nice and square for it to fit in there. so that's just a real quick easy thing todo to get this to fit square pieces if you're
not able to roundover whatever piece is goingto go in here. but we made our cut, it rides on the bearing nice and easy, going left toright, make sure you always keep a good, firm grip on it, and just make the cut. and ina bigger frame, you would just keep going all the way around until you're done.
