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Your cart is empty.Whiteside Machine Company has been in the router bit business for over 30 years providing customer with quality products while at the same time striving to achieve complete customer satisfaction. Several woodworking magazines have tested Whiteside versus the competition and selected Whiteside as the winner for best router bits available in the market. Whiteside Machine Company was founded in 1970 as a general purpose machine shop in the basement of Bill & Bobbie Whiteside's home. Located in Western North Carolina near the furniture manufacturing town of Hickory, the company was often involved in making repairs or special parts for the furniture and woodworking field. A strong commitment to customer problem-solving, a can-do attitude, and innovative ideas, along with a growing core of dedicated employees, helped the business evolve into a manufacturer of woodworking equipment and tooling. Primarily through repeat business and referrals, the tooling business continued to grow to meet a demand for quality production router bits as well as custom application tooling. Today, Whiteside Machine occupies a 40,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and produces a complete line of solid carbide and carbide tipped router bits. Whiteside's quality, innovation, and customer commitment is still present in our superb product line, in the design of custom tooling to fill special customer requirements, and in the development of special machinery and tooling for our own manufacturing use. As always, Whiteside Machine is continuously striving to improve our product through new technology, improved production techniques, and ongoing research and development efforts; along with rigid quality control, vital customer feedback and extensive field testing. Whiteside Machine Company.
Eric R.
2025-08-09 15:42:54
This is a very good price for a very high quality bit. The carbide cutters are sharp and I love that the bit comes dipped in some sort of soft silicone to protect it. I checked locally to get a bit that does this same thing, and all I found was a freud for about 3 times as much money. I don't know from experience but from what I've heard not even freud matches the quality of whiteside. My dad has a dedicated biscuit joiner from freud and that thing is a bear to use, I think this bit is the way to go. You can buy a decent quality router and this bit for cheaper than you can get a dedicated biscuit joiner. I don't understand why they are so expensive considering all they are is an angle grinder with a fence attachment on it.
Minou
2025-08-06 18:02:21
Very nice cutter for my very occasional biscuit joining needs. Plunged into cherry without a thought.The cutter itself is 1.50" in diameter. The smallest bearing (deepest cut - for #20 biscuits) is 0.50" in diameter.I bought a bag of #20 plywood biscuits which are 2.27" long and 0.94" wide. As one other reviewer noted, you will have to move the router sidewise a little bit to get the length you need. I did a series of test cuts and found that I could just squeeze the #20 biscuit into the groove if I worked off two marks 0.9" apart (half inch was way short for me). I then increased that and did the rest of my work using two alignment marks 1" apart so I would have a 1/16" (or so) of wiggle run for alignment...It did not come with the little plastic stand shown in the picture, but no big deal.
Adam F.
2025-08-05 12:51:28
I'm a hobbyist woodworker currently building my 4th piece of furniture. Each year for the past few I've built about one large project and a few smaller ones, so tool cost is a concern for me. I use biscuits primarily for aligning boards when gluing them together into wide panels, such as for table-tops. In the past I had borrowed a friend's Freud biscuit joiner, but found that the fence slipped a lot and was a pain to work with. When I looked into buying a biscuit joiner myself, it looked like I would have to spend close to $200 to get one with a decent fence -- much more than I wanted to pay for something I'll use 2 or 3 times per year. Since I already have a fabulous router, I figured an inexpensive bit would give the router more use and save some cash. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well the Whiteside bit works.I use this bit with the fixed-base on my router and hand-hold the router while cutting biscuit groves in long boards clamped to my bench. The bit is not particularly large (nothing like a raised-panel bit) and it melts into the cherry and hickory I've tried it with. I don't personally have a problem hand-holding the router when using this bit and haven't bothered using it in the router table.Since the bit is much smaller diameter than a biscuit joiner's cutter, one needs to push the bit into the wood, then move the bearing along the workpiece about a half inch to make the groove long enough to fit #20 biscuits. Laying out the width of the grooves turned out to be the only downside I've found comparing this bit to a dedicated biscuit joiner.On the first set of slots I cut I used a square to draw center-lines for the biscuits on the top of the table, then eyeballed layout lines a little wider than the biscuit. For six biscuits this worked out to 24 layout lines and took quite a while to get as precise as I wanted. For my next set of slots I made a little L-shaped layout gauge (photo: [...] that is the width of the desired slot and has a groove in the middle to line up with the slot center-line drawn on the table top. The gauge only took about 5 minutes to make and using it allows me to draw the layout lines very quickly and precisely so that there isn't much of a speed penalty over using a dedicated biscuit joiner.I definitely recommend this bit to anyone with a router that wants to save on the cost of a biscuit joiner. Of course you cant cut slots at non-90-degree angles or into the center of panels, but for square slots near the edge of boards, this bit works fabulously.
George Koulomzin
2025-07-05 17:01:15
As Expected
George Vijil
2025-07-03 14:14:27
I was looking for a router bit that would cut slots for blocks of wood, so I could join two or more blocks of wood in order to carve 3D images in larger sizes on my home made CNC router. I was able to program the gcode for my CNC contoller and automate the slot cutting for #00, #10, #20 size biscuits. I was able to set the (F) feed speed to 15 inches per min. and it worked great. The cut was smooth and effortless.I would definitely recommend this kit to any of my friends.
ben
2025-05-11 18:41:29
This does, in fact, cut biscuit slots. However, if you're working with any kind of thicker material (1.125" maple in my case), you can't bring the biscuit low enough to cut around the centerline because the 1/2" shank interferes and will burn the workpiece. I ended up cutting nearer to one side and everything worked out fine. They should have extended the necked portion longer to accommodate more thicknesses of workpiece. Pretty big oversight in my opinion.
Holly
2025-04-10 11:01:17
We used this so much and it has been a life saver. Even used it to make tongue and grooves for cabinet doors.
Ollbuster
2025-01-26 10:45:16
This router bit is much nicer than others I've used. Nicer than Freud and CMT. Sharp, good stock removal and seems to last exceptionally well.
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