Different Applications of Groove Cutters

When many people hear a cutter, the first thing that comes to their mind is to cut something. In fact, the groove cutter is also a kind of tool, but the purpose is not the same as other tools. Let's take a look together!

What are the different uses of groove cutters?

✔️Grooving tool for machine tools

Grooving tools are also used on machine tools due to their unique cutting capabilities. The slot milling cutter is suitable for the processing of molds required for the injection molding of mobile phone resin casings. The slot milling cutter was originally developed by a Japanese tool company. It uses a round head slot milling cutter of cubic boron nitride sintered body. It is quenched to reduce the tiny size caused by heat treatment. Errors are then finished with cemented carbide tools. Later, this slot milling cutter was improved.

The new round nose groove milling cutter can cut hardened dies directly from the start. This simplified slot milling cutter has a shorter lead time and higher cutting hardness. In addition, the precision of this cutting edge has also improved a lot, and its precision can be completely controlled within plus or minus 5 microns. The round head radius of this kind of slot milling cutter is 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 1 mm four models.

✔️Grooving tool for woodworking

The role of the woodworking slotting tool is to make a special tool for slotting wood. The shape of the groove cutter for woodworking is very beautiful like a windmill. It has six corners. The top of the six corners is a sharp blade. The woodworkers only need to keep turning the cutter to cut a groove on the wood. .

In addition, there are some groove cutters used in power tools in the market now, which can also cut different materials under the drive of electricity. Nowadays, the material of grooving tools for woodworking has also changed from the original iron to alloy and cemented carbide.

✔️T-groove tool

The material of this kind of slot milling cutter is generally made of high rigidity and hard alloy, and high-speed steel can be selected for general processing of easy-to-cut metals. If the hardness of the material to be processed is relatively high or difficult to cut, a cemented carbide tool should be selected. Carbide cutters are also available in two types, solid and welded, of which solid carbide groove milling cutters are more expensive.

In short, although the shape of the groove cutter is different according to different fields of use, the specific work is cutting work, and the cutting accuracy needs to be determined according to different types.