Tools With Abrasive Personalities
Machining polymetric composite materials with single-layer diamond abrasive tools.
Product Category
Cutting Tools & Tooling
Tool Story
One of the largest cutting tool companies in the world began as a kitchen-table operation in a remote part of Israel.
In the (Small) Groove
Grooving miniature parts requires a conservative cutting approach and a choice between solid-carbide and insertable tools.
Time-Saving Tools
Parts manufacturers can choose from various multifunction tools to reduce cycle times and free up tool positions in their machines.
Coating’s Holy Grail
Commercialization of cubic boron nitride coatings has proven elusive, but a two-step process for coating cutting tools with CBN is expected to come to market soon.
Focus: Sandvik Coromant
Don Nelson, publisher of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, recently sat down with two Sandvik Coromant representatives to learn more about the company's outlook and strategy for the aerospace market, its new CoroMill products and why the company puts such an emphasis on its partnership with end users. Interviewed are Brian Norris, vice president of marketing, and Chris Mills, aerospace development-North America and the company's national portfolio manager.
New Tools Needed
New cutting tool materials are required for new generation airframes.
A Cutting Moment
Travis Biggs, applications engineer, technical service, for Greenleaf Corp., offers the nitty gritty on the tools used in this 1 minute and 40 second video featuring a 5/8" ball nose tool followed by the company's Extreme Feed Mill 1" dia., 4-tooth cutting tool.
Facing Hard Facing
Greenleaf Corp. introduced its WG-300 ceramic composite tool material about 25 years ago. The ceramic matrix is reinforced with silicon-carbide "whiskers" that boost toughness. Initially applied in the relatively constant cutting conditions of turning operations, the composite tools provided a significant increase in productivity when roughing aerospace alloys. Shops are now using WG-300 tools in hard milling operations.
Superabrasive Tools: Apply Directly to Workpiece
A review of superabrasive tool technology and application tips to help shops beat the headaches of machining difficult-to-cut materials.
Cutting Carbide?
Sky-high carbide prices add momentum to indexables trend.
‘Tribute’ to the Past
A die shop that couldn't find cutting tools 'good enough' for its high-speed machining applications perfected its own design.