Post edited 10:30 AM – May 18, 2010 by Tyler

Material: Steel
Units (mm)

Here's another great weekend project from Ken, a Fly Cutter.

Here's what Ken has to say about his Fly Cutter plans:

"No, it's not for cutting up flies, it's for skimming metal up to say 50mm wide. This was also designed to screw straight onto my Unimat 3 mill spindle, so again, the rear end was drilled and tapped M14×1 to suit. Make any changes to thread size, to suit your mini mill. Made of 30mm brt ms x 40mm long, it consists of only three parts, the body and three M6×10 grub screws – couldn't be simpler. Just add your cutting tool, up to 8mm sq. shank. Clamping is via two grub screws, and a jacking screw is positioned inside the slot to adjust the angle of the cutting tool. To be honest, I have not had a lot of success with this cutter, I don't think my mini mill is strong enough, or I have got something else wrong. Attached are a couple of pictures, and a pdf drawing. Coming up next is a scissor action knurling tool, and there's more after that, so stay tuned, the best is yet to come." - Ken

Ken originally posted these plans back in 2007 (along with 4 others) on the Metalworking section of Woodworking Australia’s Woodwork Forums.

Here’s a link to Ken’s original Fly Cutter post in the Metalworking section of the forum. Thanks for contributing Ken!

If anyone has advise for Ken on why he's not having the best of luck with his Fly Cutter, please leave a comment.

  FLYCUTTER.pdf (41.6 KiB, 1,551 hits)

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