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| Author: | Ken Nagy [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Reality Check |
I have a box of 10, (9 are left) 1.2 mm or so HSS end mills for purfling. I bought them online from China probably for maybe $25, and maybe 6-8 years ago. I have no idea where I got them from. Now all I can find is carbide for $22 each with hardly ANY choice of diameter. I wanted to get one to put purfling on the head to match the fingerboard. They say it is 1mm + but it seems to be .9 to me. Can you buy HSS 1 mm bits any more? For $3-5 each? The 1.2 diameter ones that I have are too sloppy. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reality Check |
I heard somewhere there is a world wide shortage at the moment. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reality Check |
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... m+end+mill Or https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... l&_sacat=0 |
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| Author: | Ken Nagy [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reality Check |
10 carbide ones for $10 shipped? Ok. They twisted my arm. When they had that big tsunami in Japan we had a hard time for a while getting decent ceramic inserts for our lathe tools. We used them all the time cutting hardened steel. All we could get was junk. We used them like shops use carbide. Hah, I can hear the sandhill cranes squawking. |
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