How To Sharpen Brazed Carbide - How It Compares To Inserts Media

Carbide Indexible Inserts are great but Brazed Carbide still has a place in the modern machine shop and you should still know how to sharpen these tools. Especially for those one off jobs where you need a special tool. Buying a specialty insert and tool holder for every special job is not always cost effective.

Whether you are new to machining or an expert, if you have not used Brazed Carbide tooling before, this would be a good video to explore.

This video goes over brazed carbide tooling, some different tool shapes and compares the cutting quality and surface finish of a sharpened brazed carbide tool with a CCMT an CGMT carbide insert. Spoiler alert, on a light finish cut the brazed carbide tool does a better job.

The Silicon Carbide wheel is a 6"x3/4" 80 grit wheel (Part # 35014 on Amazon). The Diamond Cup Wheel is a 5" and 150grit (Search Poltava 125/20 on Amazon and 125/100 grit on the box is equal to 150 grit). You can see more details on the wheels and the spacer kit to mount both of them together on another video on my channel where I make the spacers. https://youtu.be/7l1XDeQLW_4

Here is the link to the video about Quick Change Tooling, Tool Offset and getting the most from your DRO I mention in this video: https://youtu.be/R2Qq5_GUwCY

Thanks for watching!

All machining is this video is done on a Precision Matthews PM 1440TL Lathe.