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Old 01/11/2008, 05:00 PM
Acrylics Acrylics is offline
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IME, a "good" blade will run a minimum of $60 or so and average around $100 +/- and decent bits start at around $20 and go up quickly.

If you have a plastic fabricator/distributor in your area, try pricing out having them do the cutting/routing for ya.
If you want to DIY just cuz, a finish blade will give okay results. If you plan on doing much of this, then get a decent blade, you can use NFM (non-ferrous metal) blades and they are just about as good as any acrylic blade, esp considering the $$ savings. These blades are designed to cut aluminum, brass, that sorta thing but cut plastics very well.
Not sure what type of router bit you are looking for so kinda hard to answer that. But just about any router bit that is good for wood and laminates will be fine for acrylic and many plastics.

HTH?
James