I always felt like making your own tooling was a great sense of accomplishment. I had a problem with poor surface finish from an Asian/import carbide-brazed boring bar on a prior project which is why I wanted to make a boring bar from scratch! Should be a fun project involving a lot of shop skills: CAD, making a drawing, turning, machining, heat treating and grinding!
More info at nyccnc.com and facebook.com/nyccnc
Post time: Jun-13-2017