This classic reference reflects the experience fo specialists continually exposed to industry problems in everyday manufacturing operations in the cutting tool field. It completely covers advances in technology, tooling, materials, and designs. Please note that this book is now only available in soft cover.Provides up-to-the minute information on twist drills, reamers, counterbores, taps, dies, milling cutters, hobs, and gear shaper and shaving cutters. Supplies useful tables and formulas on gears, spindle noses and arbors, tapers and angles, milling, shanks, and much more in an inclusive engineering data chapter. Illustrates through numerous photos the various types of metal cutting tools available. Includes dozens of charts containing standards produced by the United States Cutting Tool Institute.