Niabraze designs and manufactures custom diamond and CBN cutting tools for industrial production applications that cannot be solved with an off-the-shelf blade, wheel, drill, or router. Our team works closely with equipment manufacturers, material processors, tooling suppliers, and research facilities to develop unique superabrasive diamond and CBN cutting tools. Custom tooling is engineered around specific machines, materials, dimensions, and performance requirements to deliver reliable cutting performance with exceptional longevity.
Each custom cutting tool is developed around the intended work material, equipment, and production process rather than forcing the application to accommodate a conventional cutting tool solution.
Purpose-built diamond and CBN cutting tools can provide a considerable lift to consistency, longevity, and performance with also reducing material waste and solving any limitations experienced with standard cutting equipment.
Custom diamond and CBN cutting tools are integral to industrial advancement when unusual dimensions, abrasive materials, demanding tolerances, legacy machinery, and complex component geometries are becoming more present.
Custom tooling may involve modifying an existing Niabraze product or developing a specialized cutting solution with unique geometry, abrasive grit, dimensions, edge profiles, mounting features, or coating characteristics. Using electroplating and vacuum-brazing capabilities, Niabraze produces durable superabrasive tools for cutting, grinding, drilling, profiling, facing, and finishing hard or abrasive materials.
Older machinery, proprietary systems, and purpose-built production equipment may require uncommon blade diameters, bore sizes, mounting features, tool lengths, or other dimensional characteristics.
Hard, brittle, layered, or highly abrasive materials can quickly wear conventional cutting tools. A custom diamond or CBN abrasive, grit, and coating configuration can provide more reliable performance.
Specialized profiles, contours, holes, edges, and component shapes may require a custom tool designed to complete the operation efficiently and repeatably.
Manufacturers may need to improve cycle times, reduce scrap, hold tighter tolerances, or process a new material without replacing an existing piece of production equipment.
Niabraze can review tooling used with legacy machinery or discontinued equipment and determine whether a custom replacement or refurbished solution is feasible.
This process involves information gathering to clearly understand your intended use for custom cutting tools and the present challenges. This includes items like intended material, cutting process, volume, tolerances, equipment, difficulties with existing process, and other additional component design features.
Now that our team has all pertinent information it can start engineering a customized cutting tool for your application. Here is where we decide on key elements like abrasive (diamond or CBN), grit, tooth pattern, size, diameter, width, thickness, and construction method to build an optimized piece of equipment.
The project now transitions from drawings and files to real-life prototypes that can be tested, validated, and approved before progressing to the final production design and manufacturing stages that result in full-volume output of customized tooling for your application. Once final designs are approved, Niabraze can easily scale production to meet demand.
Your cutting tool is ready and has left our facility. Now, with the design on file, our team can make continual improvements based on your feedback and possess the ability to ship our repeat orders within only a few business days to keep production running smoothly and downtime at a minimum.
Diamond is generally recommended for hard, abrasive non-ferrous materials. Its hardness and cutting characteristics make it suitable for processing brittle materials, carbon-based materials, reinforced composites, and other substances that rapidly wear conventional tools.
Cubic boron nitride, commonly called CBN, is generally selected for hardened steel and other ferrous materials containing iron. CBN maintains its cutting characteristics at the elevated temperatures generated when machining these materials.
Electroplating secures diamond or CBN abrasive to the tool body within a nickel matrix. This process creates a concentrated monolayer with significant abrasive exposure for aggressive, free-cutting performance.
Vacuum brazing uses a high-temperature process and filler material to bond diamond abrasive directly to the tool substrate. The process supports strong abrasive adhesion and increased crystal exposure for demanding cutting, drilling, and grinding applications.
These are some of the most frequently asked questions about our CBN and diamond cutting tools. For any information not shown on the page or other questions, please contact a member of our team to learn more.
Our team will look for several bits of information to start the quoting process for your custom tooling, this includes but is not limited to: material, equipment, tool dimensions, production volume, operating speed, coolant conditions, required tolerances, desired finish, and any problems you’re encountering with existing tooling. Drawings, samples, or photographs are also helpful.
We can help with the final recommendation on your custom project, but the general consensus is that diamond is best suited for non-ferrous materials (glass, ceramics, quartz, composites, etc.) whereas CBN is ideal for hardened steel and other ferrous materials.
Yes. We routinely take on custom tooling jobs where we need to adjust the dimensions, grit, abrasive, bore, edge profile, or other features to deliver better performance rather than investing in an entirely new tool.
Yes. Many of our customers would rather keep legacy equipment running with new tools rather than invest in new equipment. Please provide all available information on the equipment and existing tooling for our team to begin the reverse engineering process.
Yes. Our strip and replate services are available to all custom diamond or CBN tooling regardless of the original manufacturer.
Our standard product line includes band saw blades, circular saw blades, hole saws, core drills, mounted wheels, and router bits. We offer diamond-coated products for non-ferrous materials and hardened CBN for ferrous materials.
For all specialty cutting, polishing, facing, or profiling projects that require custom tooling, our team can engineer and manufacture unique cutting tools to meet specific requirements.
Rather than ditch dull blades and tools, Niabraze provides fast-turnaround strip-and-replate services for all cutting tools, regardless of the original manufacturer. Our process quickly removes the existing cutting edge and replaces it with either diamond or CBN material.
Our experienced sales team is ready to provide detailed quotes on our standard diamond and CBN cutting tools, strip and replate services, and custom cutting tool design and manufacturing capabilities. Contact us today for more information.