Gear shaper cutters are gears that have teeth which provide cutting edges and clearances. The cutters are specifically designed to be effective and durable. The machine utilizes linear relative motion tool path to perform its cutting functions. It cuts the material inserted in it in a linear way. A sharper on the other hand operates in a similar manner to the plane but it is a little bit small and has a ram which moves up and down on a stationery piece of work. The piece of work in this particular case does not move beneath the cutter.

A sharper has a hardened cutting tool that works on a piece of work by moving forward and backward across it. When the tool is returning, it is lifted above the piece being worked on and this ensures that only one cutting direction is maintained. The cutters can however be made according to the clients specifications. The gear sharper cutters are designed in such a way that they cut any type of gear in spur or helical and can also cut internal and external. There are those gear sharper cutters which are designed to cut serrations, splines , sprockets and any other involute forms.

You can place an order for different sharper cutters depending on the application you want to put it to. If you are interested in cutting internal gears with spline holes and a smaller diameter, then the Shank type sharper cutters can be very effective. The shapers can also be designed in such a way that they are able to cut external gears depending on the applications the gears are to be put to. For roughing and finishing the external gears, the sharper cutters can be used especially where the external disc type cutters cannot be used. The disc type sharper’s cutters are disc shaped by design and are used to for finishing spur, helical and spline gears a rough finish.

There are other types of shaper cutters referred to as deep counterbore whose function is to give the external gears a rough finish especially when it is not easy to use external disc type cutters to have the job done. The number of teeth which gear shaping cutters should have is solely determined by the helix angle of the gear. It is also very possible to design the disc cutters so that they can be used to cut splines , serrations, sprockets and any other involute forms. For making spiral bevel gears, spiral bevel cutters can be used. For chain sporckets, timing gears and other module cutters, there are special gears which can be used to design them. Consequently Gear Shaping Cutters are very vital in ensuring that you have your gears well cut and ready for the job at hand.

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