What router bit/tool do you use for tight corners?

[LowEddie]

What pattern bit do you use to get into the tight corners?

I just finished routing a bridge jazz pup cavity using a template from StewMac. I have a 1/2" dia. pattern bit that doesn't fit into the corners so it leaves just enough material to where the pup doesn't fit.

Do you guys use a smaller diameter pattern bit (3/8", does any one make smaller ones than that?) or do you use a chisel or file or something like that?

I guess that I'm trying to avoid buying a 3/8" bit but I'd like to weigh it against the alternatives before I rule it out.

Thanks!
Eddie

 

[mikeyswood]

http://www.amazon.com/CMT-811-081-1..._8?ie=UTF8&s=industrial&qid=1268170524&sr=8-8

5/32" radius

It has an oversize bearing that will require oversize templates.

 

[tjclem]

http://www.amazon.com/CMT-811-081-1..._8?ie=UTF8&s=industrial&qid=1268170524&sr=8-8

5/32" radius

It has an oversize bearing that will require oversize templates.

I ama bit confused. Is it an optical illusion the bit and bering look the same.

I have been using the stew-mac 3/8" but an even tighter one would be great...t

 

[Musiclogic]

I used to do the corners on my drill press before routing, now I use spiral router bit 1/4" with bushing and over sizEd templates

 

[mikeyswood]

I ama bit confused. Is it an optical illusion the bit and bering look the same.

I have been using the stew-mac 3/8" but an even tighter one would be great...t

5/16" bit, 1/2" bearing, generic pic.

 

[tjclem]

Thanks all it is normaly just the "P" pups that fight me. I don't like pups with sharp corners. Don't like building them or playing them. That is one of my favorite things about Bart pups.

 

[GrinchBass]

Personally, I make my templates a certain measurement oversize that allow me to use a 1/2" bit to hog, and a 1/8" bit to clean up the tighter parts (using a proportionately smaller collet). Thin bits flex, it's best to plunge the majority of the clean up, and then walk the rest of it.

 

[GrinchBass]

Oh, and if the application is needed, I've got .2", .225", and 1/8", though the last one is my holy grail for the positive inlay in my detail/marquetry (inlay is still coping saw and dremel.....wish I had the hand tools/skills to do the negative without the dremel).