MDF Rose Engine Lathe : #8 - Making & Sharpening Fly Cutters

This video is about making and sharpening fly cutters for a cutting frame on a rose engine lathe.
Links relative to this video include :
* Sharpening Handbook page on Fly Cutters - www.sharpening...
* Sharpening Handbook page on Micro Bevels - www.sharpening...
* Ultra-Hard C2 Tungsten Carbide Rod - www.mcmaster.c...
* Typical cutoff saw from Harbor Freight - www.harborfrei...
* Ornamental Turning Book of Knowledge (OTBoK) - www.otbok.info/
* Ornamental Turners International (OTI) - ornamentalturne...
* Society of Ornamental Turners (SOT) - the-sot.com/

[@jamesnicholson3313]

Very interesting and informative many thanks.

[@caulerpa1]

I use a similar method for making my cutters out of HSS

[@mctavishmcardle6906]

have you tried using the presplit carbide blanks, from mcmaster? a bit more expensive, but it might save you some grinding time

[@RichColvin]

McTavish, I have not. They sound like a good idea. Carbide is hard to grind!

[@RichColvin]

I know some McArdles in Ireland. You related to them?

[@mctavishmcardle6906]

@@RichColvin if so, very distantly - the only ones i've ever met live in the US

[@kaieteurcanada]

Next video: how the tool bit is used in the flycutter... tnx/

[@RichColvin]

It is used with a cutting frame the MDF Rose Engine Lathe. Here's a video showing that: ruclips.net/video/M6mte7EpRo8/видео.html.