Diamond Tools Glossary

• Continuous Rim

  Fast cutting. Suitable for continuous cutting, long life, straight and smooth cutting and not collapse the material during cutting.

• Contour Blade

  The diamond contour blade is designed for cutting granite sink holes where any curved cutting application is required. It is to be used with angle grinders or stone cutters/saws with more than 7 amps and a minimum of 9000 RPM.

• Ring Saw

  A ring saw is a form of bandsaw where the band is rigid, rather than flexible. This requires the band to be circular, rather than the bandsaw's usual oblong[1] of straight runs between two (or three) guide wheels.

• Segmented

  Segment saw blade is used for cutting wood, metal and plastic.

• Turbo

  Turbo design provides an aggressive cut and gives a clean and precise cut.

• Tuck Point

  Tuck Point Blades are used for tuckpointing or repointing, which is the removal of mortar joints and the preparation of masonry surfaces including concrete, block, bricks, pavers and stone.

• Weld type

  The way to weld two parts together into a solid form.

• Sintered

  The welding type of the saw blade is by sintering.

• Brazed

  The welding type of the saw blade is by brazing.

• Laser Brazed

  The welding type of the saw blade is by laser brazing.

• Electroplated

  The welding type of the saw blade is by electroplating.

• Dry

  The diamond tools are designed for the grinding/cutting applications in dry condition.

• Wet

  The diamond tools are designed for the grinding/cutting applications in wet condition.

• Dry/Wet

  The diamond tools are designed for the grinding/cutting applications in both dry and wet condition.

• Single Tipped

  Single-point tools are used in turning, shaping, plaining and similar operations, and remove material by means of one cutting edge.

• Full Top PCBN

  Full face/top CBN inserts are mainly used for turning and milling.

• Solid PCBN

  For highly efficient machining at large depths of cut. The use of cbn particles and a newly developed special binder delivers high wear resistances.

• Cartridge

  A rotary cutting tool having one or more cartridges for holding a cutting insert. Each cartridge is disposed in a longitudinal groove in the tool head, and a semicircular ringlike cam lock is disposed in a transverse slot in the cartridge body. Tightening of a setscrew in the cartridge body forces one cam lock end portion into engagement with the insert to lock it in place. The cam lock is also forced against the tool head groove wall to screw the assembly in place. An additional cartridge clamp is also provided for radial adjustment.

• Double Tipped

  This tool saves time and replaces the knife, ruler, and cutting block for clipping the tip when making reed blanks. It can also be used for cutting the tip during any part of the process. An adjustable bed or mandrel holds the reed at exactly the length desired for your reed blanks. It clips the reed cleanly and accurately with much ease. It can also easily clip small amounts during the reed-scraping process.

• Natural Diamond

  Natural diamond, also called diamond, which is known as women’s decoration in ancient times. Actually, it refers to some crude material taking its shape through series of chemical reaction, such as in the volcano, where the molecular structure of the carbon element turned into a more stable one under high temperature and high pressure.
  In natural diamond, the most common form of diamond crystals is octahedral, while a dodecahedron diamond is rare, cube more rare. In addition, there are many other shapes of convex octahedron, convex dodecahedron, convex hexahedron and their combination. Due to crustal movement, and the impact from the nature, surface crystal is more than the plane ones. On the surface of natural diamond crystal there are some ladder-shaped or uneven reliefs, sometimes appearing with some triangle shaped holes on the octahedral crystal and deep dark lines on the dodecahedron diamond crystal.
  The formation and discovery of natural diamond are not easy, because it is a carbon’s transformation under such special conditions in the deep earth as high temperature and pressure after hundreds of millions of years. The formation and discovery of natural diamond are not easy, because it is a carbon’s transformation under such special conditions in the deep earth as high temperature and pressure after hundreds of millions of years.

• Monocrystal Diamond

  Single crystal synthetic diamond products are produced by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) or high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) synthesis. The resulting single crystal synthetic diamond is an engineered synthetic material that is highly consistent and has predictable properties and behaviour. Synthetic diamonds (whether formed by HPHT or CVD) have properties such as hardness, thermal conductivity and electron mobility that are superior to natural diamonds. HPHT diamonds offered by iAbrasive.com is considered to be the ultimate synthetic diamond material for synchrotron optics, due to its high thermal conductivity, and to the low levels of crystal structure defects and imprities which can otherwise distort the lattice.

• Polycrystalline Diamond

  Polycrystalline diamond, PCD or TSP for short. At present, it can be roughly divided into three types according to the sintering mechanism, predominated by sintered compact (S - type), which is a kind of blocky aggregation sintered jointly by lots of fine diamond grains and cemented carbide substrate under high temperature and pressure. Its molecular structure is characterized by grain arranged disorderly, no direction and no cleavage plane, which is one of the most significant features of diamond. Therefore in the using process, it wont cause brittle crack and flaking under impact, and significantly prolong service life.
  As a processing tool, PCD is mainly used in oil, metallurgical, geological drill, reamer, etc. Its drilling speed and aging are many times that of natural diamond, and at the same time it also can effectively keep the aperture in the drilling process. Artificial diamond compact can also be used to cut non-ferrous metals and alloys, hard alloy and non-metallic materials, with its cutting speed one hundred times that of the carbide cutting tools and durability thousands of times that of cemented carbide.

• Polycrystalline cBN

  Polycrystalline CBN, or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN), are produced by sintering micron CBN (cubic boron nitride) powders with various binding materials, so as to enhance its hardness and thermal stability. Most PCBN materials are integrally bonded to a cemented carbide substrate. PCBN composites provide extreme resistance to deformation and wear at high temperatures – typically an order of magnitude better than the nearest ceramic materials.
  About two thirds of all PCBN tools are used for the machining of hardened steels, offering a viable, more cost effective alternative to conventional grinding processes. Other applications are in the machining of hard, grey and high-strength cast iron, and cold and hot-work tool steels. The machining of nickel and cobalt-based superalloys is a significant and rapidly growing application area for PCBN.

• CVD Diamond

  CVD is a short form for Chemical Vapor Deposition, which is a chemical process used to produce high-purity, high-performance solid materials. A mixture of carbon and oxygen is stimulated and resolved in such circumstances as high temperature and pressure under standard atmosphere, thus grows into CVD diamond through deposition. Chemical vapour deposited (CVD) synthetic diamond is typically produced in a vacuum system below atmospheric pressure, with the carbon atoms supplied from a gas such as methane. The ability to control gas purity makes CVD diamond growth a particularly effective way to make synthetic diamond for applications requiring very high chemical purity, including optical, electronic and certain mechanical applications.
  Because CVD diamond does not contain any metal catalysts, so its thermal stability is very close to that of natural diamond. Similar to synthetic polycrystalline diamond produced under high temperature and pressure, the CVD diamond grains are also arranged disorderly, no brittle cleavage plane, therefore stay isotropic. CVD diamond is now being used as a kind of cutting tools. In addition, lots of chemical vapour deposition (CVD) synthetic diamond products have been used for a wide range of high technology applications including electronics, sensors, lasers and thermal management.