Handy End Mill Cut Comparisons

[Big Man Black T-Shirt(Patrick)]

I found this on the Inventables site, I downloaded it as a handy reference and thought I'd share it here too.

[kec-10238]

interesting

[aforww]

I never use straight cut. Less efficient of them all. I use up cut for everything unless the top side edges have to be perfect. Then I use down cut. But chip clearing really becomes important with down cut on plastics and metals.