Many people create small workshops for themselves in their garage or small shed, and they are usually universal. In a private house, you have to work with both metal and wood, and some create carpentry workshops as a hobby. It is for working with wood that frasers are used, for which wood cutters are required, and we want to discuss the initial set in this article.
If you have a lot of money and you can afford to buy expensive branded machines, then this article is certainly not for you, since you can immediately purchase good, expensive cutters at a price of 2-3 thousand rubles apiece.
Also, if you are starting a woodworking and joinery business for sale, the advice in this article is not worth following.
But if you have an inexpensive tool, you are an ordinary person with a regular salary, we advise you to read the article to the end.
So, our advice at the initial stage is not to buy expensive cutters. The usual cheap ones will do, and the very best.
Modern technologies allow even the cheapest milling cutters to be produced of relatively normal quality for processing soft woods such as pine or spruce, which are mainly used by most beginner joiners or people who have chosen carpentry as a hobby.
For most of the people listed above, the bigger problem is not the quality of the cutter, but their quantity and variety. This happens due to the fact that cutters are used infrequently and for different types of products (piece). Well, the resource of one cutter for a piece product is exactly enough if it is made of pine and not defective.
If we consider the options for buying cutters in Russian construction stores, including their online versions, then the cheapest end mills for a manual fraser start at a price of 300 - 400 rubles.
That is, a set of cutters in 10 pieces will come out approximately in the cost of the router itself. Too expensive for many.
But there is still such an Internet site as aliexpress. There, in fact, exactly the same cutters can be found at significantly lower prices. For example, a starter set of 12 cutters for a collet with a diameter of 8 mm (the most common) costs approximately 800 rubles (with free delivery).
In terms of quality, these cutters are in no way inferior to those budget cutters that sell for 300-500 rubles apiece in our hardware stores. This is because they are made in the same factories, just then painted in different colors.
The only drawback of this set is that the cutters will come to you in the simplest plastic opaque containers. That's all. But the cost of their purchase, or rather the savings, we think it's worth it.