Bevel Gears: A Little Theory. A Little Practice…Literally!

A kinda long video about making an 8 DP bevel gear..roughly 5 inches in diameter..as a test piece for another hobbing project I’m starting. The ones I’ve made before have been cookbook style…this time I wanted to understand the why behind the method and try to explain it. The result is a decent, usable gear cut with a standard involute gear cutter, which man hobby machinists have in their shop. If you are into this stuff, I hope this helps, if not, there is some cool footage making this test gear on my new-to-me Van Norman 22LU milling machine. Enjoy!