Gear shaper cutters use a reciprocating motion to generate gear teeth.


Serving the gear industry for over 45 years, Ash Gear & Supply has new and preowned tooling in stock and ready to ship. We stock gear hobs, gear shapers, shank shapers, and broaches. We stock master gears, gear wires, software, books and more.

DTR offers a complete line of coarse pitch to fine pitch hobs including involute, worm, chain sprocket, timing pulley, serration, parallel spline or special tooth shape, shaper cutters and milling cutters for auto, aerospace, wind, mining, construction and other industrial gear cutting applications.


GMTA is the North American subsidiary of Profilator GmbH out of Wuppertal, Germany. Profilator is the pioneer of SCUDDING (Skiving) and offers modular multifunctional machine platforms for mass production of gear box related components. Along with Profilator, GMTA offers machinery, tooling, and peripherals to produce powertrain and propulsion systems for both on highway and off highway applications. We are a systems solution provider offering technology for both green and hard machining of gears.

