How To Grind a Chip Breaker Tool Bit  

Pretty cool that your dad’s little trick is now available for generations to come.

For us man cave dwellers who don't do a lot of turning, and maybe mostly use inserts, this information is the difference between thinking something and knowing it. It's a great help. Thanks, Adam.

Maybe I'm just easily entertained but that was pretty cool. Especially the view of the steel rolling through the groove at the end. TY.

Hi. This is exactly what I needed. I’m new to metal working and this explains very well how to make your own cutters. Thanks Adam.

I love the way you talk about all the tips and trade secrets your dad (and grandad) passed on for you to become the top machine man you are. Great video again thank you Adam.

Thank you. Believe or not some small shops have a hard time buying commercial carbide for every job.

Great fan here in France of all your excellent videos. 71 years old and never had the courage to grind a tool. Followed your instructions. Made a tool. Worked like a dream on aluminium. Even the chip breaker worked!. Brilliant.

i claimed the lathe at my work last week as it was just collecting dust and been messing around with it aswell as trying to grind different high speed toolbits, this is showing up just at the right time. thanks Adam

Starting out first year machine shop taking the time learning to get my cutting tool or drill grind just right and then showing ol Mr Calvin our great shop teacher my proud job he would take a good look at it and say not bad Ed. Then take it and jam it in the wheel and mess up the whole grind and say here now do it again! Yep got pretty good at sharpening bits and tools LOL

I am an 82 year old man living all my life in Houston, Texas. For a time I owned part of a company that financed machine shops. At that time there were more than 1000 machine shops in the Houston area. I really enjoyed visiting prospects and customers and getting a VIP tour of their shops. Looking at the machines and watching the machinists at work, seeing the raw materials and finished products was fascinating. But I didn't have the slighted idea of how to machine anything. Now after watching at least 200 of your videos I'm much better informed. You are definitely a master machinist. However my interest is in you the person. You are an extremely hard working, very ethical and generous man. I admire you more for that than your machining skills and knowledge. Also I have a son named Adam and he shares your fine qualities.

So helpful 😁! I love learning these little things that make such a difference in machining!

Thank you for the elucidation. I am NOT a machinist, & if I need machine work done I take the job to a machinist. Your video & explanations answered all the questions I had about tool bits. Thank You !

Thanks for sharing some of your tips and tricks for grinding. I really like the idea of this tipz blitz series.

I don’t miss any of your videos, to learn and relax.

Adam; thanks for showing this again, it's going to help me tune up my cutters.

Thank you, Adam! The difference in finish was huge.

The amount of knowledge that you have is incredible. Your generosity in sharing it is even more do. Thanks!

I'm definitely going to try this grinding technique. Always like seeing different ways of doing things.

Great tip! I'm a home guy and need HSS to get through some projects. Now, I need a good pedestal grinder like that!

Great tips Adam. I look forward to the next tip video.

Good video Adam as always. I've been in the trade for about 40 years and saw you just posted a new video. Even though I know how to grind my own tools, I figured lets see what Adam is up to with this. My point is that we are never too old to learn something new. Great information for the folks starting out. Thanks, as always I enjoyed watching.

Adam, thanks for demonstrating a trick I've been using for years. If chips refuse to break try grinding the cutting edge slightly below the chip breaker groove. For best results the chip needs to forcibly contact the rear edge of the groove instead of sliding over it.

Much less pressure on mchine , tool n part. Work equally as well on shapers n planers. I ground bits for our shop in the 70s seemed to be a steady part of my job. Even after making forman , boss said hey Gary got a special bit i need. My fingers got to be burn proof after awhile. Good job on the bits Adam nice video.

I used to make carbide chip breakers at a tiny little machine shop called Madill Carbide. Only 7 employees and we made carbide inserts by the thousands for the local aerospace industry here in Wichita, Kansas.

Definitely a good tip, Adam. Well worth watching this... short, sweet and information packed.

Great tip Adam thanks for taking the time to share it with us. Play Safe From Elliot Lake Ontario Canada.

Thanks for uploading Mr. Abom!!

Love this content. Can't wait till you do another tool resto.

I have always been interested in machining. I often thought about buying a lathe. You make it look so easy because of your knowledge and experience. Thanks for sharing a great trade.

This #tipblitz is cool. Kind of like in the old days home shop and project magazines had short-cut tip issues.

Been looking forward to this one ever since I saw your post on IG about chipbreaker tools a couple months back. This is really cool, thanks for sharing Adam. Going to try my hand at this once I get my new shop set up and get the lathe wired back in.

Thanks Adam

This will be so useful! Going to try this next weekend.

HSS has saved the day for me many times! Being able to grind it properly is a valuable skill. Good tip! :-)

Always the man to watch , thank you very much !

Great info. Thanks for sharing your insights!

That's a cool idea, thanks for sharing that. I'll definitely be making a couple of those up!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I could definitely tell the difference in the finish

Finally a real ABOM video.

Thank you🙏💕 love from India🇮🇳

Hey Adam, Could you do a video on feeds and speeds would be really helpful. Cheers

Excellent tutorial clear and concise, just the way I like it.

Thanks for sharing..... love learning new tricks.

I've been waiting for a video on this subject from you! Great skill to have.

Very nice. Hadn’t see that trick before. Thanks Adam

i was a terrible anything metal guy but if i had had someone like you teaching me i probably would have prevailed

Excellent video w/explanation! Thanks for sharing!

THANK YOU...for sharing. Enjoyed.

Hi Adam, I recently "discovered" your channel and I've enjoyed watching it immensely. I appreciate your dedication to your craft and your approach to problem solving as well. You are a licky fellow to have followed in the path of both your father and grandfather, and I'm certain they're very proud. I have two suggestions that you might find interesting: 1) In my woodworking hobby I've found it interesting to use a magnifying camera from time to time. The one I use (purchased on Amaxon) goes from 10x to 200x and was not expensive ($50 as I recall). It connects to a a computer via USB cable or to a TV/monitor with a RCA jack. 2) I've noticed one of the most common things you do is "touch off" - make contact to determine when a cutter meets a surface. It would be quite easy to arrange a 5v electrical circuit that would illuminate an LED upon contact since all the hardware you use is conductive. Don't know if that would be useful, but it came to mind. Thanks for reading this far. I look forward to learning more about machining! PS - Your buddy the welder is quite good! - I've done a little TIG welding and he makes it look pretty easy!

Love to see this content for shaper tools

Excellent cam work Abom..learning tons thx👍👍

Seen all your videos now. NEED MORE ABOM!!

Thanks for sharing, good tip. Cheers Peter

Thanks it takes me back to tech college 50 years ago!

Cool😎. I've had tonnes of bird nest issues with 1018, definitely gonna give that a shot, thanks.

Wow! Never even heard of this! I’m running out to the shop and try it right now!

Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the great tip on how to grind in a chip breaker.

I tried this because of previous vids , game changer 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great video! This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

LOVELY video.

Thanks for the education.

Great video abom79

Nice tip Adam! I would like to add mine: with this kind of tools it's important to use coolant, high temperature can cause the sharp edge to become dull too quickly.

AWESOME , really great tips Adam .. ENJOYED

Amazing 😉 top work again keep up the tip videos I love to see u doing things like that and I’ve seen them in kits the chip breaker and now I no how it works thank you ABOM 79

Great tip, trying to teach myself how to grind HSS tools and it’s often difficult to determine what I’m doing wrong with out someone yelling over my shoulder. This should help greatly thanks for sharing!

enjoyed and great info.

oh thats great! enjoyed.

Thanks adam

Very interesting!!

That's a great method Adam. I've never tried this, but I definitely will be. I quite like using HSS.

Thank you sir

very cool, thanks for the video..

This would have been a cool way to impress my instructor when we were learning to grind tool bits at my local tech college! Haha

Some great advice Adam. When I first started machining in the home shop the biggest mistake I made was not learning to grind HHS properly.

Some pretty interesting information. Thanks

Those chips are so satisfying

That's a pretty cool tip

Thanks!!

Sure beats heck out of those huge birds nests I've seen on some 6061 turning! Nice instructional vid for the guys, Adam.

Thanks for sharing a other cool video, it will be helpful

With the chip breaker bit its smoother the chips are nicer as well as the finish is a lot nicer

Thanks that was a great video.

I think to many new home machinist rely on insert tools exclusively. Great to see you doing a HSS grind instructional. Still looks like your cutting butter on your machines :)

Wait a minute?! You and Tony making the same (sameish) tool? Blows my mind!

Im amazed how fast a grinding wheel cuts through something that rips chucks off a slab of metal

Good onstructional, thanks

60 years ago I remember watching my father turning extruded aluminum tubing to make telescope parts. Sometimes the chip would stay together and form a long spring-like chip that was several feet long. We used them for Christmas tree decorations. Just the opposit of what a chip breaker tool does.

Hey adam, this is a great video and i would like to see a series of short tip videos like this regularly from you. The name for the tips videos should be "Chip Control"... i know it was the video series about tool bits you did years ago but it is also a great name for general tips videos. This video made me think of that as a name.

Thank you for the info Adam ..I'm new comer to the trade ! All info helps me out .

Very neet technics

Will you please do a video in the process of repairing the bearing housing on an endbell?

Hi Bom. Something I always see and have never understood - I was always taught to use a whet, oil or mudstone with as much "whet" (oil or water) as possible , the only exception being a slip stone where you make your slip mud and then do your best to keep it going and to use it as your abrasive. The others you use the surface of the stone - so the aim is to keep the surface clean and well lubed to get the best contact to wear down the edge. What am I missing - it seems to be the same aim but I always got my knuckles rapped if I dared let the stone get dry.

Thank you Adam I always enjoy your videos I am from South Africa

Thanks for being part of #TIPBLITZ19

Modern inserts use chip breaker designs that have become almost proprietary designs of the tool manufactures. That is why two similar inserts from two different manufacturers will provide different results in surface finish, tool life and chip breaking. When I was learning how to sharpen turning tools, I often saw the difference when I reground a tool originally sharpened by old timers.

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You went straight up Ave/this old tony on us in this one!

Things I knew about but didn't /know/ about.