On Fri, 27 May 2005 02:00:28 -0700, twistdrill123 wrote:

I would like to make silver steel D bit cutters and possibly a dovetail
cutter. I once saw a web site that showed you how to make them but can't
remember it and I didn't have the lathe then.

Not sure about the dovetail cutter but here's a short article on making
D-bit reamers.

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/d-bit.html

Also check the Google archives of this group for discussions of the
subject. I remember D-bits being discussed here a number of times in
years past.