A drilling system and methods provide stability and cutting performance to produce holes having desired straightness and other characteristics. The system may include a cutting head provided with a central cutting system and first and second side cutting inserts. The tool provides a major diameter with the OD cutting margins on the replaceable side inserts, as well as possibly cutting margins on the center cutting member. Adjustment mechanisms may be provided to adjust the center cutting member and/side cutting inserts.

A deep hole drill head support pad whose edge chamfers are formed in a continuous grinding operation so that there are no discontinuities in the angled side surface leading up to the outer surface thereof. A method of manufacturing the support pad includes generating a virtual guide metric including a curved travel path for a grinding surface around a support pad blank, and a plurality of control surfaces intersecting with the curved path at separate locations along its length, each control surface defining an angle of orientation of the grinding surface. A CNC grinding machine can interpret the virtual guide metric to change the angle of orientation of a grinding surface relative to a support pad blank as it moves between adjacent control surfaces in a continuous manner.

An indexable guide plate and an associated drilling tool are described in which the indexable guide plates have very small dimensions but, despite these small dimensions, have a large number of guide surfaces. As a result, the indexable guide plate according to the invention can be used for a long time, even with drilling tools having a small drilling diameter.

A drill head for deep-hole drilling includes cutting blade tips brazed to cutting chip discharge ports opened on a head distal end surface, guide pads mounted on a plurality of positions of the circumferential surface at the head distal end side, and a hollow inside portion made into a cutting chip discharge passage communicating with the cutting chip discharge ports. A guide pad portion having an arc surf ace that slide-contacts with the inner circumference of a cutting hole is formed on the outer end surface of the circumferential portion cutting blade tip.

A drill head for deep-hole drilling includes cutting blade tips brazed to cutting chip discharge ports opened on a head distal end surface, guide pads mounted on a plurality of positions of the circumferential surface at the head distal end side, and a hollow inside portion made into a cutting chip discharge passage communicating with the cutting chip discharge ports. A guide pad portion having an arc surface that slide-contacts with the inner circumference of a cutting hole is formed on the outer end surface of the circumferential portion cutting blade tip.

A deep hole drilling system and methods provide stability and cutting performance to produce deep holes having desired straightness. The system may include a replaceable cutting head provided with a center cutting member and first and second side cutting inserts. The tool provides a major diameter with the OD cutting margins on the replaceable side inserts, as well as possibly cutting margins on the center cutting member. Adjustment mechanisms are provided to adjust the center cutting member and/side cutting inserts.

A rotating cutting tool configured to rotate around an axis of rotation in a rotary direction, and a support pad for such a tool is disclosed. The support pad defines a central longitudinal axis and has a first longitudinal edge side, an opposite second longitudinal edge side, a first transversal edge side and an opposite second transversal edge side. The support pad includes a first support surface, which is convexly curved as viewed in a plane perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis and a first recess, which extends into the first support surface in a direction from the first longitudinal edge side towards the second longitudinal edge side. The first recess extends to a final position on the first support surface.

A tool body 10 of a cutting tool 1 for use in hole machining is provided with an insert mounting seat 20 on which a cutting insert 60 is mounted, and such tool body 10 includes: a chip discharge bore 30 formed so as to extend from the insert mounting seat 20 toward a base-end side 10b of the tool body 10; and a coolant flow path 40 for supplying coolant from the base-end side 10b toward a leading-end side 10t of the tool body 10. The coolant flow path 40 includes a through-hole 41 that extends from a peripheral surface 14 of the tool body 10 toward the leading-end side 10t of the tool body 10.

A tool for machining a workpiece includes an elongated shaft that has a first shaft end and a second shaft end opposite the first shaft end. A tool head is arranged at the second shaft end. The elongated shaft includes a measuring channel for optical measuring radiation that extends from the first shaft end to the second shaft end. The measuring channel includes an optical measuring surface at an end that faces the second shaft end. The optical measuring surface is configured to reflect optical measuring radiation coupled in via the first shaft end at least partially back to the first shaft end. The optical measuring surface is also configured to vary a property of back-reflected measuring radiation as a function of a relative position of the first shaft end with respect to the second shaft end.