Round cutters from Seco Tools Inc. (www.secotools.com) are suitable for roughing, semi-finishing and finishing. Button cutters, or copy mills with round inserts, offer a number of advantages – ...

These button-cutting tools were used by La Crosse’s fastest button cutter, Peter Brunner, at the Wisconsin Pearl Button Co.

Once upon a time in milling, manufacturing engineers and MRI managers regarded special tools as a last resort, limited mainly to dedicated high-volume applications. Conventional wisdom was that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Combined Scissors and Button-Hole Cutter ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 25 No. 6 (August 1871), p. 83 doi:10.1038 ...