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Andres Sender

Rather than clutter up Craig's thread, and in hopes that it will be more easily found with a search, here's the info. on the cutter I found, which several people are using as an alternative to Michael Darnton's rotary file.

It's a keyseat cutter: 12 tooth, straight-tooth, HSS, 1" dia., 1/4" cutter height ('face width'), #808. McMaster has them for about $30, and any machinist's supply also. My specific one is a Keo, #88080.

Feed against, not with the rotation. Terrible things will happen to you if you go with, and your hand gets sucked in.

They look like this:

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Cliff Green · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject:

Thank you Andre. How much depth of wood are you comfortable removing in a single pass with this cutter?

Andres Sender · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:49 pm Post subject:

Just tried it on some soft domestic US maple and the cut started to get boringly slow for how hard I was willing to push at 4 mm, but the tool was still humming contentedly. I was using an old Taiwanese benchtop drill press at 3000 rpm.
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