DIABLO 1/4 in. x 1 in. Carbide Straight Router Bit

58 reviews for DIABLO 1/4 in. x 1 in. Carbide Straight Router Bit

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   Hassie O’Conner
   December 11, 2022    Verified Purchase

   I use this bit to make the slots for butterfly houses. I works great. With the old bit It would take five or six passes. With this bit it only takes three or four.

2. Rated 4 out of 5

   Bernice Lebsack
   December 2, 2022    Verified Purchase

   Easy to install

3. Rated 5 out of 5

   Sandrine Crona
   December 2, 2022    Verified Purchase

   Worked well.

4. Rated 5 out of 5

   Annabelle Rice
   November 28, 2022    Verified Purchase

   Great

5. Rated 5 out of 5

   Leonel Friesen
   November 27, 2022    Verified Purchase

   Words as well as it should.

6. Rated 4 out of 5

   Viola Krajcik
   November 24, 2022    Verified Purchase

   I inherited a number of older woodworking power tools from an uncle of mine. In this group of tools was a great early 90’s router. It came with a router bit already installed, but, it was rusty and wasn’t the size I needed. While scoping out the bits at HD, I came across the Diablo 1/4 in x 1 in carbide straight router bit. It was exactly what I needed. When I got the bit home, I realized I needed to do some maintenance to the old router. I oiled it down, cleaned it off (not in that order) and removed the old bit. Happy with the fact that the old router had some life left in it, I was pleased with the idea of firing it up with a brand new bit installed. That’s when I discovered problem number one of two issues with the bit, both having to do with packaging. The bit comes in a modified clam shell that seems to be ultrasonically sealed. It requires the use of either scissors (very sharp scissors) or other blade like instrument to extricate the bit from the packaging. That’s when it first drew blood! I opted for the later, a utility knife to free the bit. In doing so, the packaging’s resentment for my choice of tools became clear as in one pass of the blade the packaging bit into my finger drawing what to my eyes was nearly a quart of blood. While another man would have been phased by this blood letting I knew that this was just part of working with a bit named “Diablo.” After I regained consciousness, and the bit was free of the packaging, I realized there was still one more hurtle for me to free the bit, the holder the bit was standing in. This shouldn’t have been a problem, but the stand was relenting to forgo it’s hold on “El Diablo.” As I pried and prodded the bit with various tools, it struck me that I should just use my fingers and take hold of the bit to remove it. When I came too, I had probably lost another quart of blood, but El Diablo was free!!!

7. Rated 5 out of 5

   Daphnee Durgan
   November 18, 2022    Verified Purchase

   The router bit is exactly what I needed and did the job smoothly.

8. Rated 5 out of 5

   Jeffery Conroy
   October 30, 2022    Verified Purchase

   It worked just as I expected it to.

9. Rated 4 out of 5

   Ettie Nitzsche
   October 19, 2022    Verified Purchase

   I used this to run dados in some drawer sides. Worked great in birch plywood no tear out while cutting .25 deep in one pass.

10. Rated 5 out of 5

    Adele Rolfson
    October 5, 2022    Verified Purchase

    I have always been amazed at th3 quality of Diablo blades. I purchase the for all my saws and routers. Sharp and stay sharp longer than any other brand I’ve used.

11. Rated 3 out of 5

    Hershel Streich
    September 16, 2022    Verified Purchase

    I purchased this router bit for a certain task (making small slots in plywood panels). Perhaps I ought to have kept on looking. While the flutes edge condition was functional, they were not really as “sharp” as I’d hoped, and the edges of the slots were burned (black spots) where only the flute edges had been in contact with my work. This usually indicates that rather than cutting the plywood cleanly, it rather pushed it out of the way, and therefore the cutting edges got locally hot enough to burn the light colored Birch and structural plies. If I have to do this again, I’d get a spiral fluted version of this cutter, which the Home Depot apparently does not carry.

12. Rated 5 out of 5

    Tad Shanahan
    September 6, 2022    Verified Purchase

    Worked perfectly! No complaints at all. My only issue was how much I spent on the cheaper Ryobi bits and continuously broke those. Should have spent a little more from the start.

13. Rated 5 out of 5

    Augustus Considine
    September 6, 2022    Verified Purchase

    works like its supposed to

14. Rated 4 out of 5

    Alyson Quitzon
    July 2, 2022    Verified Purchase

    It is an effort to open the package. Enough so that I will try not to buy more.

15. Rated 4 out of 5

    Robin Sporer
    June 29, 2022    Verified Purchase

    I bought this bit because I don’t have a jointer but I do have a router table,so I used it to get a perfect straight line on some 13/16 pieces that I needed to join up and it worked great,it saved me frombuying a joiner for a small project.So my next tool buy will be,you got it, a joiner.

16. Rated 5 out of 5

    Lillian Dach
    June 26, 2022    Verified Purchase

    Good material

17. Rated 5 out of 5

    Faye Wilderman
    June 24, 2022    Verified Purchase

    Does an excellent job

18. Rated 4 out of 5

    Roxane Pollich
    June 15, 2022    Verified Purchase

    I used it to slot 1/4″ lexan for partitions, worked well, only draw back if move too slowly the stringers will melt back together and clog up your pass. Pacaking was a bit cumbersome as well.