Ask any machinist about chip control, coolant, or indexable vs. solid, and you’ll get five different answers. In this episode, we dig into all of it with Tom Raun from ISCAR.

On this episode of Impractical Machinists, Tom Raun from ISCAR hangs out with us to talk cutting tools—how they’re made, the ideas that actually changed the game, and where things are headed next.

We get into everything from inserts that made parting faster, to 3D-printed drill bodies, to the kind of factory automation most of us never get to see. It’s full of takeaways you can bring right back to the shop.

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