Tool & Cutter Sharpening (Workshop Practice)

A fantastic primer on shaping and grinding your own tools. Contains recipes for making basic grinding fixtures. Makes clear what aspects need to be precise (depth of grind) and which can be approximate (relief angles). Teaches you all the words, too. In British.This knowledge becomes essential for manual lathe work when you get into unusual operations like grooving, trepanning, internal features in a bore, things that are not supported by the tool market. Also for achieving fine finishes, as commercial carbides are not that sharp, and leave poor surface quality when used on some materials on a lightly built lathe.They even get into sharpening end mills, dovetail cutters, drill bits, reamers.

This volume treats a subject that is neglected in the majority of machinist's manuals.Plenty of good information in here.

Good starter book on the subject. I think for some things it was great. I found the section on sharpening drills to be helpful and informative. It explained things I had missed in other stuff I had read. As for end mills and such, I think I'd be hard pressed to turn out an accurate end mill based on the simple grinding rests created in the book. Overall, the book is worth the time if you are interested in sharpening your own tools.It's definitely a hobbyist level book though. I don't think any tool and die guy would get much out of it.

I own many of Harold's books and each one is awesome!Very well written and easy to understand. The text is accompanied buy clear, excellent photos.Each book is a mini bible of machining techniques and processes.As someone who is teaching himself the machining trade, I find his books invaluable.Thank you Mr Hall for sharing your skills and knowledge with us!

A very useful book taking what was often a closed secret into clearly understandable descriptions of how to do this important work. A short section on Lathe Tools would round it off into a really outstanding book.

I purchased this book for additional ideas for different contours of lathe tooling shapes and angles. It seems to spend more time on milling tools and is basic for all, but overall gets the simple portion across for those who are not used to sharpening or making tooling for machining operations.

Worth having just for reference.

This series of books is very technical. I was hoping for a high school level course but these seem more college oriented. But, I can't complain about a product being TOO good, can I?

Excellent practical tech advice on cutter sharpening in this text, and no fluff or unnecessary complication. Good value for money.

This book gives a good guide to tool sharpening, I’m a relative beginner to this side of things and it helped make sense out of concepts explained from a lot of other sources such as YouTube. The explanations are clear

Buono

Dieser Titel ist super! Das Anfertigen einer hochwertigen SChleifauflage wird in allen Details erklärt ebenso wie das Tuning einer Schleifmaschine. Dann gibt es Tipps für das Neuschleifen von Bohrern, Fräsern, Drehstählen, Sägeblättern, Stech- und Hobeleisen usw. also fast alles was der Bastler so schärfen möchte wird erklärt. Dazu sollte man gut Englich können und Tante Google oder ein gutes Lexikon dabei haben, denn es gibt natürlich jede Menge engl. Fachbegriffe. Das Ganze ist in Harold Hall - typischer lockerer Sprache abgefasst, kurzum ein Vergnügen zu lesen! Für den Preis habe ich noch nichts adäquates deutschsprachiges gefunden.

Beaucoup d'informations dans ce livre sur les moyens d'aiguiser les outils utilisés dans le machinage de l'acier.