Ted Edwards wrote in message ...
Lennie the Lurker wrote:

Your point?

The considerations of a production shop are kinda irrelevent in a thread
on light home shop machines. Your idea of optimum isn't the same as
mine.

My point: why spend extra, several times extra, for something you have
neither the need or the power and rigidity to fully utilize? Carbides
were not designed to meet the needs of the HSM, they were designed for
machines capable of providing brute force power and rigidity, of which
damn few of us have.