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Certain types can also be customized for special flute styles such as Right Hand Spiral, Left Hand Spiral, Straight Flute, or with Chip Breakers.

There are several kinds of reamers created using different materials for various applications within machining. Reamers are also classified based on their construction and method of holding or driving. Here are some of the standard types and classifications that you may see as a machinist.

Reamers have a Right Hand Helix when the flutes twist away from the observer in a clockwise direction when viewed from either end of the reamer. Alternatively, they have a Left Hand Helix when it twists in a counterclockwise direction.