You won't have any luck! All you are going to cut is a groove, there is nothing to remove the center. It's meant to move over a surface to produce a flat surface. Not drill holes, unless there is already a hole there. It will enlarge a hole.
I am having a very difficult time seeing the utility of that.Anyone have much luck using a Morse Taper Fly Cutter in the tail stock for roughing out
hollow vessels? Do these work quicker then a Forstner bit for removing the interior wood?
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There are different cutting bits that you can install in a fly cutter.
You can cut and grind a profile on the cutter blade as desired.
Anyone have much luck using a Morse Taper Fly Cutter in the tail stock for roughing out
hollow vessels? Do these work quicker then a Forstner bit for removing the interior wood?
I don't see any reason why a fly cutter wouldn't be a good method for sizing openings on hollow vessels. We use a bit more sophisticated version in metal cutting on CNC milling machines all the time, they're called boring heads.
There shouldn't be any more problem with slippage of a fly cutter in a Morse taper than with a Forstner bit. Actually, maybe less problem since the torque load could be less. The one shown is not a tanged arbor which I would prefer.
Consider it another possible tool in your arsenal. When I was involved in automatic wood turning we used a similar tool to put an inside corner radius on shallow straight sided boxes.
The original question asked about using the fly cutter in place of a Forstner bit. It should be obvious that you can't bore with a fly cutter since the head of the tool will stop once it butts against the wood.