The tool's shape is a dead giveaway. The tooling, which resembles a Christmas tree, is often used for finishing blade root grooves and blade roots of turbines, is alternatively known as a fir-tree design, or a pine-tree, or now, a Pagode Tree Cutter developed by cutting tool solutions provider EMUGE-FRANKEN.
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Originally published on CTE: 2024-11-11
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