I'm planning on building a router copy carver for consistently carving banjo necks. I've read in a few places that routing extremely hard woods like maple can be quite dangerous with the router digging in and throwing the work at you. With a router copy carver the router is free to pivot and move about, so this has me a bit unsure about the idea with the router being more free to pull itself into the work, and also more free to come swinging at me if it got loose.
From what I know about lathe tools, less back rake has less of a chance of digging in. I'm wondering firstly if endmills typically have less of a back rake than routing cutters (I can't find any information on the rdg or arceurotrade websites on their endmill angles), and secondly if this line of thought is stupid or not.
