Reply To: Taig Made in USA

[david pierce]

DDHIX,
If you want to stay within your budgetary constraints remember you don’t need to buy everything all at once. As far as a graver vs cross slide goes, both methods can turn out good work. The major difference between the two methods is a cross slide allows you to cut to numbers. Once the cutter locations are figured out the cutter can be literally dialed in. Because of the precise control you have over the cutter location, you can make rough cuts without going over tolerance and ruining the part, and, accurately sneek up on the final cut with micrometer controlled increments.
david