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Basically I can buy http://www.toolstoday.com/p-5370-carbide-tipped-forstner-bits.aspx
(the 2" one), or http://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/fb-015/
This one. Sharpening is no problem, I have diamond files. Common sense told me to go with the carbide, but even more common sense told me to ask some seasoned veterans for their opinions.
Should I go for the carbide over the HSS? Or would you recommend a third option entirely? I'm willing to pay a little more if there's a better one out there. I have an inexpensive Porter Cable bit from Lowes right now, and it wasn't the best on friction/dulling. I don't like paying my drill bits to be my person trainers. (I do freehand cuts for table leg mortises with a 1/2" drill, so it can burn those forearms.)
http://www.toolstoday.com/p-5370-carbide-tipped-forstner-bits.aspx
(the 2" one), or http://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/fb-015/
This one. Sharpening is no problem, I have diamond files. Common sense told me to go with the carbide, but even more common sense told me to ask some seasoned veterans for their opinions.
Should I go for the carbide over the HSS? Or would you recommend a third option entirely? I'm willing to pay a little more if there's a better one out there. I have an inexpensive Porter Cable bit from Lowes right now, and it wasn't the best on friction/dulling. I don't like paying my drill bits to be my person trainers. (I do freehand cuts for table leg mortises with a 1/2" drill, so it can burn those forearms.)
http://www.toolstoday.com/p-5370-carbide-tipped-forstner-bits.aspx