The machining method uses a tool to machine a workpiece set in a jig, the workpiece has a plate-like web part arc-shaped in plan view and a flange part bent and arranged vertically from an edge along the arc shape, the tool has an end cutting edge and a peripheral cutting edge, and the jig has a surface where the web part is placed and a contacting surface where the flange part comes into surface contact. The machining method includes: pressing the flange part against the contacting surface; cutting the flange part by the peripheral cutting edge by feeding the tool in an arc direction of the arc shape; and cutting the web part by the end cutting edge by feeding the tool in the arc direction.

A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate and a diamond layer coating the substrate. A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a rake face, a flank contiguous to the rake face, and a cutting edge configured by a ridge formed by the rake face and the flank. The rake face has a first rake face and a second rake face located between the first rake face and the flank. The second rake face and a surface of the substrate located on the side of the rake face form a negative angle. The second rake face is formed at the diamond layer.

Broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one embodiment, is a multi-flute end mill configuration that maintains circumferential spacing between the rake surface and clearance surface adjoining two adjacent end face cutting edges, respectively, regardless of the number of flutes and the desired end face configuration.

In a method of setting heat-resistant alloy cutting conditions used to set cutting conditions under which a heat-resistant alloy is cut with a cutting tool, the cutting tool has a long shaft mounted on a spindle and extended in the axial direction and teeth formed on the shaft. The cutting conditions include a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool in the radial direction. When the radial direction cutting amount in which one tooth is constantly in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a smallest radial direction cutting amount and the radial direction cutting amount in which three or more teeth are not in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a largest radial direction cutting amount, a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool is set in the range from the smallest radial direction cutting amount to the largest radial direction cutting amount.

This surface-coated cutting tool includes a cutting tool body made of tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide and a hard coating layer deposited on a surface of the cutting tool body, in which the hard coating layer has at least one (Ti.sub.1-xAl.sub.x)N layer (0.4X0.7, X is an atomic ratio) with an average layer thickness of 0.5 to 10 m, the (Ti, Al)N layer has a cubic crystal structure, and IaIb<5 is satisfied when Ia (%) is an average absorptance of the hard coating layer at a wavelength of 400 to 500 nm and Ib (%) is an average absorptance of the hard coating layer at a wavelength of 600 to 700 nm.

A ball cutter includes a cutter bar and a cutter head. The cutter head has one end mounted to the cutter bar. The cutter head includes a main body and a number of cutter teeth mounted on the main body. A quantity of the cutter teeth is equal to a positive integer within a range from 8 to D*15. D is equal to a diameter of the main body of the cutter head in millimeters.