Straight Top Groover — 2″ Width, Mini-Pro (3/4″ Bore)

Cuts a flat-bottomed 2″ groove — the widest straight top groover Freeborn builds on the Mini-Pro body — for wide housings, timber joints and deep rabbets, and does two more jobs besides: run it against the fence to cut a rabbet, or fit a 2-15/16″ diameter rub bearing and it becomes a flush trim cutter following a template or a previously worked edge. The straight top grind leaves a square groove with clean corners — nothing is rounded, coved or ogee’d. Freeborn indexes the series by groove width and the trailing SKU number is that width in sixteenths, so 032 is 2″, 024 is 1-1/2″ and 002 is 1/8″. At full width take the cut in stages rather than full depth in one pass, and keep the feed steady — a 2″ cutter asks a lot of a 3/4″ spindle. Mini-Pro body: 3/4″ bore, 2-15/16″ diameter, three wings, counterclockwise, carbide tipped. The Pro-Line counterpart is PC-22-032 on a 1-1/4″ bore at 4″.