Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I needed to engrave some lines in a block of aluminum so I made one of the simplest types of homemade tools you can, the D-bit. It is made of O-1 tool steel, which is very easy to harden in the home shop. The video covers machining it, hardening it, and using it.

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