Hobbing is easy if you can measure the gear in some way easily, I use the OD as my size reference and infeed re run to size, the nice thing about a hobbing machine (well the one here anyway) is you can go back to the start and still be in gear and run again. As for the use of an endmill to create the form we had a user in IRC who posted a picture of his day job doing just that but on a very large scale, I use a slitting saw to do escape wheels for clocks so is an interesting exercise in roughing out then following the form. A form tool is easiest for plain gears but then you are limited to tooth number ranges as JMK mentioned.
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