Rebating is a common application and you will need at least one cutter in your collection. The good news though, is that you can buy complete sets with a series of interchangeable bearings that produce a range of rebates with just the one cutter. You vary the width of the cut by changing the bearing diameter.

Although you can cut rebates with a straight cutter and the router side-fence, the use of bearing-guided cutters is easier and allows you to form a rebate round a curved edge, or within an already assembled frame.

Like many of the other profile cutters they are also available with guide pins as well as bearings, but these do tend to mark the work.

Self-guided rebate cutters can be used on straight as well as curved work. Although the width of the rebate is set by the guide bearing diameter, different diameter bearings can be fitted to vary the rebate size.