by DanaDCole on Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:24 pm
After not getting any replies so far, I finally decided to go look at Lowe's. They had a 1 and 5/16", 45-degree bit, which I purchased and used to chamfer the bowsprit. I tried it on a scrap piece first and it looks about right. If it's too small, I can buy a bigger bit and make it bigger. If too large, well too bad.
The biggest problem I had was the bit wanting to pull the router to the right when I was starting the cut, which made a couple of my chamfers a little too long--not enough to hurt anything. The only thing is they don't all line up, so I may try evening them out manually. I won't try it with a router--the chamfers will just keep getting longer and longer!
After the first cut I went from my one-hand router to my bigger one with two handles and that helped a lot but not completely.