cBN Superabrasive (cubicle Boron Nitride)

The process of manufacturing cBN (Borazon) and synthetic diamond are very similar, though the crystals for cBN are created from Boron oxide feed stock. Boron does not react to ferrous components, and thus are ideally suited to grinding Hard ferrous materials such as heat treated stainless or tool steels.

Natural Diamond

The shape of natural diamond with its numerous sharp facets lends it self to be very free cutting but with a less controllable wear rate.

Natural diamonds are crushed from larger particles, then sorted for size, and thus have an inconsistent, but sharp/angular shape. This shape can produce a larger chip size and rougher surface finish on the part being cut, compared to synthetic diamond of the same relative size.

Metal Bond

Adeptly suited for materials and/or application that can benefit from the long lasting, highly accurate and reasonably simple maintenance practices required from these abrasive blades

As a bonding system for abrasives, there are many different types and combinations of metals used in this system, but they can be narrowed down to two main types:

Bronze based:  This group of bonds is by far the most common in the precision manufacturing industry. These are in general, soft, ductile, easy to machine and dress, with good accuracy and overall quality in a large array of applications and processes.

Cobalt based:  This group of bonds is primarily used in the construction industry, although with advances in powder metallurgy they have made strong inroads to the precision manufacturing industry due to the high stiffness and accuracy these bonds can achieve.

Both of these bonds are fabricated in a “Sintering” process and thus there can and will be a multitude of variations within each of these to groups, in both the process and the metallurgy employed.  

Nickel Bond

Ideally adapted for materials and/or application that require a highly accurate, stiff and long lasting blade that holds a form (maintains face geometry) exceptionally well.

Though this could be classified as a metal bond it is usually not, because the manufacturing process is vastly different it is considered by most to be in its own category. In this bonding system the abrasive is held in place with electroplated or electroformed Nickel matrix.

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