Craftsman lathe

My concern is that gear is hard and I’m not too sure carbide would be happy machining that hard stuff and not chip the tool.
There are carbides that can survive the impact but shapers typically use HSS/Cobalt bits because carbide is brittle. Grinding is probably the best way for hardened teeth like that. Maybe solid carbide endmill in the Bridgeport?? That fancy tooling isn’t cheap though, and you need a big rigid machine.