The Home Grown cutter Grinder

[TomG]

Bill,

Don't let the desire to cut gears be the reason you want a horizontal mill as your first mill. Horizontal mills are quite specialized and unless all you want to use one for is to square up stock, cut through slots and cut gears, a vertical mill would be a better option. A vertical mill can do everything a horizontal mill can plus it can easily drill holes and mill pockets and blind slots. Yes, it can even make gears. The cutters are also MUCH less expensive than for a horizontal mill.

Tom