Pros and cons of climb milling in wood

[Ger21]

Climb cutting seems easier on the ear, less vibration, but it tries to pull the wood into the cutter when going across the the grain.

Are you sure you were climb cutting? Climb cutting will push the board away from the tool, not pull it towards it.

[HiltonSteve]

Are you sure you were climb cutting? Climb cutting will push the board away from the tool, not pull it towards it.

Gerry,

In my experience climb milling always wants to drag the material, table etc towards the cutter.... get an old milling machine with a bit of backlash, put a decent size cutter in and put a good size cut on. Watch what happens when you try to climb mill... you end up tightening the bed locking screws to stop it from jerking towards the cutter. When toolmaking and using aluminium I always used to rough the sides of plates by conventional milling as you could rip the material off quick but left a rough finish, then leave 0.5mm or so on for climb mill finishing which left a nice smooth finish.

Nice screenset by the way....