lathe tools, drills, grinders, knives, end mills, slot drills
I’ve been using milling machines for my hobby of model making for over 40 years, but CNC is new to me and CNC cutting bits are new. The primary first task for the CNC engraver [more…]
Diamond plates for sharpening tools, putting a final edge on a knife or lapping a surface to ensure flatness. You get diamond pads with a plastic backing and a grid of holes or the diamond [more…]
A review of the Swann-Morton scalpel. We all have a selection of different knives from the robust Stanley that is great for cutting tough material such as carpet to the small model making knives with [more…]
Reduce any Overhangs is all about increasing the stiffness of the workpiece, the machine and the tool. An overhang equals flexibility. One key parameter with regards to any tools is to reduce the overhang and [more…]
I bought this Glanze Profiling Tool to use on the Warco WM240b lathe. The tool comes with a torx key, but no space insert. Although being round you can rotate the insert and so re-use [more…]
A review of a set of pre-ground Soba HSS Lathe Tools in 12mm high speed steel. This is a bit of a cheat as it is not that hard to grind your own lathe tools, [more…]
Having bought a Warco WM240b lathe I needed some larger tools as everything up until now had been based around my HobbyMat and Unimat 3 that are both very happy with 6mm tooling. At 6mm [more…]
An afternoon at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition. The event this year, 2016, was rather quieter than last year and did not feel like it had the number of stands or models. I did go [more…]
Having broken 2 slot drills and 1 end mill last weekend whilst milling the cooling fins into the cylinder head of my new engine I went online in search of some new bits. One of [more…]
I needed some new end mills as I managed ot break an 8mm one last week – quite frankly I was being heavy handed and had not tightened up some of the traverses as well [more…]
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