Which bit for my morticer?

[will1983]

On saturday I was having a great productive day cutting mortices in the door styles of some bedroom furniture I'm building for the Household Management until I had a bit of a disastor, the bit in my morticer broke, so now I need a new one.

The morticer is an Axminster White series model similar to this Jet model
http://www.axminster.co.uk/jet-jbm-5-be ... cer-510315

Looking on the Axminster website there are two brands; the Axcaliber japanese patern bit
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axcaliber-qu ... s-ax947934

and the Harima variety
http://www.axminster.co.uk/japanese-pat ... ly-ax22412

So, opinions please, which do i buy?

Cheers
Will

 

[Phil Pascoe]

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axcaliber-qu ... l+and+bits!

It came through this morning, it might be worth a look.

 

[RobinBHM]

I would check with Axminster, mortice bits and chisels are not necessarily interchangeable, its generally safest to but chisel and bit unless you know the make of the original

 

[Beau]

I would check with Axminster, mortice bits and chisels are not necessarily interchangeable, its generally safest to but chisel and bit unless you know the make of the original

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Do you know why the bit broke? Just that they normally last an age.

 

[will1983]

it was purely my fault, i was using the 6mm setup and after about 23 1/2 mortices i got sloppy and pulled down to fast on the lever.