Micro form end mill

A micro form end mill, having:

• a tool shank designed to be received in a tool holder of a milling machine, and
• a cutting head fixedly connected to the tool shank such that the tool shank and the cutting head share a common longitudinal axis about which the micro form end mill rotates during usage,
• wherein:
• the cutting head has a plurality of cutting teeth and each of the plurality of cutting teeth has a cutting edge,
• a maximum radial distance (Amax) from all cutting points on each of the cutting edges to the common longitudinal axis is less than 0.5 mm,
• at least first and second ones of the cutting edges are arranged with a radial offset from one another,
• wherein the radial offset is a difference in radial distances from the common longitudinal axis between a first one of the cutting points on the first one of the cutting edges and a first one of the cutting points on the second one of the cutting edges and the radial offset is present along only a portion of an entire length of the first and second ones of the cutting edges in a direction parallel to the common longitudinal axis,
• said first one of the cutting points on the first one of the cutting edges and said first one of the cutting points on the second one of the cutting edges are intersected by a first common plane that is perpendicular to the common longitudinal axis, and
• each of the plurality of cutting edges includes an S-shaped segment that extends radially from the common longitudinal axis from a minimum radial distance (Amin), which is at a cutting edge start adjacent to a terminal end of the cutting head, to the maximum radial distance (Amax), which is at a cutting edge end adjacent to the tool shank.