Home Made Tools! - DIY Boring Head

Time for another great intermediate machinist's project as I make a my own boring head for the home shop.

These aren't incredibly hard to make, but they're definitely worth while and I had great fun thinking through all the challenges that needed to be overcome, especially with regards to fixturing and indicating in features.

The boring head has a 20mm straight shank with a 50mm diameter body, designed to take 12 mm boring bars it's on par with some of the smaller commercially available boring heads. other than a dovetail cuttet and maybe a reamer though, not much is required to make one of these for yourself, so I hope I inspire some to give it a try