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Several key factors involved in letting that method work for you, and then it is only good for creating a channeled worm gear, which has a rather limited application. If actual gear cutting is of interest to you, then certain accessories and set-ups are required, but there is nothing about it that you can't master, and then the sky is the limit as to what sort of more normal gearing you may create for yourself!

 The only issue going down the gear cutting road is cost and money
And I spend enough now in my shed on tooling

Cheers
Dennis