Tinkering with Carbide

摘要

Everybody's working with carbide tools these days, but carbide materials still have one big shortcoming: their tool life. However, these cutting tool companies think they might have some solutions. Whether it's skiving tools or shaper cutters, many of the latest cutting tools that manufacturers have been promoting have all taken advantage of one material: carbide. From Gleason to Star SU, many of the biggest cutting tool manufacturers have all developed carbide tooling that takes advantage of the material's rigidity and affordability, but carbide has also come with a traditional tradeoff: tool life.