Shawn,

Sometimes it's kind of frustrating trying to get everything together to start building. I just started building a canoe, a "Redbird" from the Canoe Craft book, and went through the same kind of holdups. I ended up ordering my bits from "Woodcraft" online. www.woodcraft.com

The bits are a bead and cove set, and are a full 1 1/2" diameter, and carbide edged, so they cut very cleanly. On the web site they call them "canoe bits" since they are also used for cutting strips for canoes.0 They were $36 for the set, but it was a few more dollars for me to get them in time for a weekend to mill strips.

I think that these bits would hold up for many boats, 1400 linear feet of soft wood, and they are still cutting like they did on the first strip.

Chris Dore' Baton Rouge, La