We sometimes wonder if designers ever actually use their own products, or even put them through some sort of human-factors testing before putting them on the market. Consider the mechanism that ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...

Tangential milling may double or triple insert edge life while allowing for higher material-removal rates. TWO SHOPS HAVE FOUND THAT THEY can improve their rough-machining operations by adopting ...

Rathburn Tool was founded by current company president Angie Holt’s father in 1983. Today, the company has 32 CNC machines (half are lathes and half are milling machines), and works with the heavy ...

The two basic cutting tool types used in metalworking are the single-point and multi-point designs. Fundamentally, they are similar. By grouping a number of single point tools in a circular holder, ...