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Star Cutter’s custom carbide drills are engineered to deliver precision, efficiency, and reliable performance in demanding production environments. Designed with application-specific geometries, carbide grades, and advanced coatings, these tools support a wide range of materials and machining requirements, helping manufacturers improve tool life, chip control, and overall process consistency.
Star Cutter’s custom-designed solid carbide drill offering includes single or multiple-diameter tooling, with options of straight or helical flutes with diameters ranging from .1575 (4.00mm) to 4.00″ (101.60mm), as well as an array of carbide grades and advanced coatings options.
Our polished solid carbide drills designed specifically for machining die-cast and extruded aluminum are made from selective wear-resistant carbide grades that include special cutting geometries, bolt hole circles, coolant hole sizes, and advanced coatings for application optimization.
Star Cutter core drills are ideal for machining aluminum, ductile iron, nodular iron, and compacted graphite iron (CGI) from both solid and cored casting conditions, helping to correct imperfections in the casting for finished operations. These drills reduce cycle times, provide constancy in the overall life of the product, and machine with reduced harmonics compared to an inserted drill. In addition, solid carbide core drills can be re-sharpened multiple times, keeping the cost per hole competitive.
Special core drills can also serve as excellent pilot tools in gundrilling operations. The pilot tool can also have a chamfer added, allowing the core drill to combine two tools into one. These are especially helpful for highly interrupted cuts where indexable or insert drills experience performance difficulties.
Star Cutter has perfected a line of hydraulic cavity/porting tools that allow machining from either a solid or cast core casting condition. In many cases, these multi-step tools will allow cavity machining in one pass or shot.
Our latest cavity/porting solutions have replaced traditional high-speed steel, brazed carbide tipped and sub-landed style tools with pressure coolant coated, solid carbide tooling. Our engineering department analyzes the hole diameter sizes and depths of cut to optimize the machining process, typically accomplished with either a single- or two-pass solution.
Star Cutter Company has developed into a world leader in the cutting tool industry. Each of our six manufacturing facilities specializes in producing a specific type of product or service: solid carbide cutting tools, carbide blanks and preforms, gundrills, gear cutting tools, and 5-axis CNC tool and cutter grinding machines.