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View All →Milling Tools: Benefits of Circle Segment Cutters in 5-Axis Machining
Circle segment milling cutters are quickly becoming the norm in 5-axis machining. These cutters can reduce cyc...
Absolute Tool Length for CNC Machinists
Absolute Tool Length is an industry standard feature in CNC machining that provides continuity across machine ...
Making Things Square in Three Dimensions
Measure twice, cut once is excellent advice when building anything, from carpentry to metalworking. While this...
No Need To Buy A Woodchipper – Build One!
Polish YouTuber WorkshopFromScratch finally got fed up with tripping over piles of garden detritus and decided...
Hackaday Prize 2023: Machining Metals with Sparks
Working with metals can present a lot of unique challenges even for those with a fairly well-equipped shop. Me...
Is That A Typewriter In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Pleased To See Me?
[Attoparsec] wondered what if you could carry a typewriter in your pocket, then followed through with that and...
Pulling A Chainsaw With Gravity
[Flowering Elbow] had a large ash log that needed to be milled. He had his chainsaw and shared an excellent te...
A Solar Frame From Scratch
“From scratch” is a bit of a murky expression. How scratchy does it get? Are you just baking your bread yourse...
Improving a Mini-Lathe with a Few Clever Hacks
Like many budget machinists, the delightfully optimistically named [We Can Do That Better] had trouble with so...
Hack a Folding Bike to Help You Catch Some Pike
For many of us, this whole pandemic thing has produced some unexpected upsides. One of [George Turvey]’s was f...