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Part 1 tells how to make things like ball handles, ball end mill blanks, etc. in your lathe. without special tooling - just a parting tool - by the 'incremental cut' method (with several improvements) which I described in Home Shop Machinist Magazine several years ago).

Part 2 contains instructions for generating male or female radii with a ball end mill, in a vertical mill. Say you want to machine a 1/4" radius on the corner of a piece of material - if you've got a 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 1/2" or other size ball end mill, you can do it easily, quickly and accurately.

Part 3 consists of more than 70 tables for both ball and radius generation from 1/64 to 1" radius.

Notes and a drawing showing how to rig an indicator on your lathe. And some other related info. and a drawing & numbers for a very nicely proportioned handle for such things as feedscrew dials. levers, etc. By the same token, the radius tables could be used to handle some part-circle machining jobs as well.)

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