Dovetail Groove in Aluminum or Carbon Steel

[John_Marlow]

Finally made this!

I posted it in Show & Tell so you can see how I did it and what I learned.

Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - April 2017

I made a dovetailed block on the Bridgeport. The block clamps onto the ways on my Taig microlathe and acts as a travel stop for the carriage/cross slide when I am using the dial indicator. [image] [image] I bought an 8-flute 45 degree dovetail cutter from MSC, after a misfire with another cutter. The first cutter I bought specified the cutting width as 1/4". Much to my surprise, that was the tip to centerline distance, and it would only cut a dovetail 1/8" deep. Since I needed a 1/4" do…