Tangential tools ?

Wouldn't be without my tangential tool , one of the great benefits for me is the ease the tool bit can be sharpened ! Like at lot of members of this forum I wear exspensive glasses so not to keen on spending much time on the grinder.

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Another nice thing is the speed and ease of setting it to centre height.

With tipped you dont have to keep faffing about setting heights.
Which comes in handy working from a zero, hss wears a lot more rapid than carbide and would need a couple of touch ups just in the roughing stage followed by another for finishing, thats 3 losses.

Havent used a tangential since 1992, great for learning with but limited use.
Lastly i would question the quality of any hss available the last 21 years unless i have been unlucky trying to sift the remotist of quality from any where.
No problem with old Eclipse HSS 5% Cobalt think thats all i have left from Graham Eng having junked the chinese trash which are like butter, slightest touch and too far gone.

You’re a professional machinist though Jon, I guess most of us on here are hobbyists so spending a couple of seconds setting a tool is no big deal, we do it for fun not a living.

Thanks John, that looks just the thing. I might even have a bit of cast iron lurking under the bench to make it out of, but I'll need to mout an expedition, workshop is a bit of a tip at the moment. The swing over the saddle on the Cowells is 2" (at least mine is), so I think I make it a tad shorter, but otherwise it's all there

Thanks again