Tooling & Workholding

Cutting Tools
The broad category of “cutting tools” includes all of the consumable tooling involved in milling, drilling, turning and other lathe and machining center operations. Drills, end mills, taps, reamers and inserts are all included here. Consumable tooling used on certain other types of machine tools is included here as well. Also found here are toolholders and closely related accessories such as angle heads.

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September 2010

Video: Big Boring Operations on a Marine Prop Housing


East Texas Machine Works focuses on large-scale work. Here’s a video showing impressive boring operations on a marine component.

June 2010

Video: Modulation Assisted Machining


This footage shows the effect of a techology that speeds and simplifies center drilling by oscillating the drill through many pecks per second.



April 2012

The Skiving Solution

By: Chris Felix
Shaving operations are often the solution for a shop that needs to produce round diameters and other tough contours with tolerances within ± 0.0005 inch.

April 2012

Cutting a Micron at a Time

By: Tim Pennington
When the task is to remove very small amounts of material, this process may be the answer.

April 2012

Polygon Solutions Inc.

By: Production Machining
Polygon Solutions Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes precision rotary (wobble) broaching tools and toolholders.

April 2012
Rego-Fix Rego Plus dual-contact toolholders

Toolholders Improve Rigidity, Machining Accuracy

By: Modern Machine Shop
Licensed by Big Daishowa, the Rego Plus line of dual-contact toolholders from Rego-Fix are said to be compatable with all Big Plus spindles and include a full line of ER and powRgrip system toolholders.

April 2012

A Systems Approach for Successful Titanium Machining

By: Shi Chen
Coolant delivery, spindle connection and dynamic response all are part of a tooling formula for milling this metal productively.

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