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Title: Are you kidding?
Review: When I first started woodworking, I bought a twenty dollar Forstnet set and have used them for years. Now many of them are burned and unusable. I figured I would throw down some bucks for a quality set. Unfortunate for me I chose the CMT brand. I had a 1 1/8" size in my cheap set that was never used and did a side by side comparison of the same size of the new set I just bought. (Chucked into a drill press, drilling into red oak) The chinese bit drilled a hole with only a small ridge at the top of the hole, faster, with less effort and less heat buildup. The CMT bit produced a significant ridge at the top of the hole, more effort to plunge into the wood, and the bit was hotter after drilling. I then stroked the cutting edge of each bit with a diamond sharpening stone and tried again. Each bit performed better, but my chinese tool still stood higher in quality. I returned the CMT's. Got me some Freud brand, their new Precision Shear. Good stuff.
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