I'm going to buy a face mill... I'm going to buy a face mill.... I'm going to buy a face mill.

I've been looking for the last week and I bit the bullet and bought a rather large 3" 45 deg. cutter. I was looking at fly cutters to do a nice single pass over some 3" bar stock but these fancy face mills attracted my attention due to the better balance and they probably won't be as hard on my spindle.



The Glacern looked really nice but in the end.... I cheaped out and bought this one from Shars. Uses the same inserts and as far as I can tell... same cutting geometry. It was half the price so that was a big motivator.

I'll run some passes and post some video once I'm cutting.