The following pictures show a brass test cutter and the tool steel cutter meshed into the teeth of a cut 20 tooth 48 pitch gear.
Also the basic dimenesions used in later setup. The last picture shows tempering of the gear cutter. Picture color is off some as it's just a nice
dark straw color. Dimensions for the gear came form a spread sheet I created. You can get away with using a end mill of close size to the
tooth radius ( depends on what you want) but I wanted to see what my engraving machine could via multiple profile passes.
RICH