Quick and Easy DIY Radius Cutter

This is a little tool I made to cut inside radii on the lathe. I built it to cut one specific radius, 1/2 inch. I was going to make one that was adjustable but decided against it because the cutter had to be pretty compact to fit inside a one inch circle, and I was looking for quick and easy to build.

The reason it is offset to one side instead of in line with the tool post is to allow larger diameter work to clear the carriage.

I fast forwarded the actual machining, that stuff is boring as hell, total time to do that cut was around 10 minutes. I probably could have been more aggressive with the cuts and shaved some time off, but I'm just learning the tool.

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