Abstract: A hobbing cutter with a hob body which circumferentially has at least one helically shaped flight or a plurality of annular flights, including flanks on either side of a flight apex, wherein the flanks have alternately mounted thereon indexable inserts by means of screws and the indexable inserts extend into the flight apex, wherein the cutting edges of adjoining hobbing flights further are at a twisted offset from a line which runs in parallel with the axis of the hob body, and wherein the indexable inserts have associated therewith radially outwardly open chutes which transversely extend through the flight apex, wherein the cutting edges of the indexable inserts of adjoining flights are disposed at such an offset from each other that a straight shank of a screwdriver can be passed through a close-to-apex portion of the chutes in order to be engaged with a mounting bolt of an indexable insert on the adjoining flight.