Star Cutter Company News

Star SU Welcomes David Kruise as Marketing & Communications Manager

Star SU, the marketing, sales and service affiliate of Star Cutter Company, announces the appointment of David Kruise as Marketing & Communications Manager.

Star Cutter Advances Precision Reaming with New Double Pilot Reamer Design

Star Cutter Company introduces its new Double Pilot Reamer, a precision-engineered solution designed to deliver superior size control, exceptional surface finishes, and dramatically extended tool life in demanding barrel machining applications.

Scott Lukomski Joins Star SU as Sales Director for Cutting Tools

Star SU, the marketing, sales, and service affiliate of Star Cutter Company, has announced the hiring of Scott Lukomski as Sales Director for Cutting Tools. Lukomski will report to Star SU president, Andreas Blind.

Star SU Partners with the REGO-FIX Center for Machining Excellence to Showcase Louis Belet Micro Tool Capabilities

Star SU announces its partnership with the REGO-FIX Center for Machining Excellence (CME), to promote its growing capabilities with the Louis Belet line of Swiss cutting tools. The new cooperation is one of many that the CME is investing in as part of a large-scale collaboration to gather many different manufacturing technologies in one location...

Star Cutter Appoints Adam Chipman as Sales Engineer for TRU TECH Grinding Systems

Star Cutter has announced the hiring of Adam Chipman to support sales and service of the company’s line of TRU TECH centerless and cylindrical grinding machines. Chipman will report to Aaron Remsing, Star Cutter product manager, and will be based out of the Elk Rapids, Michigan office.

Star SU Hires Richard Rickert as Round Tool Product Manager

Star SU, the marketing, sales and service affiliate of Star Cutter Company, has announced the appointment of Richard (Rick) Rickert as its Round Tool Product Manager. In this position, Rickert is responsible for identifying customer needs and market trends for product development, cultivating relationships with key accounts, and supporting regional sales distributors to achieve sales...

Star Cutter Unveils New Flexible and Compact Tool Grinder at IMTS 2024

In booth #237013 at IMTS 2024, Star Cutter Company is unveiling its newest generation tool grinder – the FLX, which will be shadow grinding throughout the show to demonstrate its capabilities. This 5-axis grinder has been designed with a focus on flexibility, enabling users to modify features to exactly match their grinding needs. At the...

Star Cutter Incorporates TRU TECH Brand into Grinding Technology Portfolio

– At IMTS 2024, Star Cutter Company is showcasing a TRU TECH T93XM centerless grinder in booth #237013 to illustrate the integration of the TRU TECH product line into the Star Cutter grinding technology portfolio, which includes 5-axis, broach, cylindrical and centerless grinders. This same look has been applied to the other TRU TECH machines,...

Star Cutter Announces New Website

Star Cutter announces the launch of its new, totally redesigned website that better illustrates the company’s vertically-integrated approach and expertise in developing application-based cutting tool solutions. With a theme of “There’s always a solution with Star Cutter. We find a way or make one”, the site consolidates the company’s groups into a single resource for...

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Troubleshooting Gun drilling Operations

Hole making in all its many forms can be challenging. Difficulties with chip evacuation, coolant starvation, drill walk and poor surface finish—these are just a few of the headaches that can turn one of the most common of all metalworking operations into an awful day. Unfortunately, the list of potential problems tends to grow as...

Coolant Hole Configurations

Star offers three unique coolant hole configurations: Single Hole, Dual Hole, and Kidney Shaped Hole...

Gundrill Wear Characteristics

As a rule, gundrills wear in three distinct areas: at the point, the face, and the outer diameter. After regrinding, each of these should be returned to their original factory specifications. The area most missed is the outer diameter, which is often left in less than pristine condition and should not be used as-is.

Options for Improving the Machining of Upper Rail Systems

The rifle upper rail system allows the attachment of various accessories such as scopes, sights, and flashlights. Mounted on the top of the rifle, it needs to provide a stable platform for the accessories to be attached to, yet not add more weight than needed to the rifle. As such, many firearm manufacturers look to...

Tooling for Rifle Barrel Manufacturing

A rifle barrel typically begins life as a cylindrical steel bar. The transition from steel bar to a full-fledged rifle barrel begins with a deep-hole drilling process as the initial step, where a long drill with a hollow stem and tungsten-carbide bit is used to drill the trued and stress-relieved bar.

Achieving perfect concentricity with the SRT Reamer

The SRT, or Super Round Tool, is a patented reamer designed by the Northern Tool division of Star Cutter Company to create the best quality reamed hole across a spectrum of applications. The SRT combines two tools into one – it offers multiple straight flutes for consistent location and multiple helical flutes that ensure roundness...

Improving Machining With 3D Printed Tools

The machining of powertrain components and aluminum prismatic parts, such as stator housings for the growing electric vehicle market, often require large and heavy tools. When used on traditional machining equipment, the weight of these tools can cause excessive spindle vibration and chatter, poor tool life and, potentially, scrapped components. Lightweight Solution: Additive manufactured tools...

The benefits of re-tipping and re-cutting PCD tooling – Updated

Fixed Pocket PCD milling and interpolating tools are designed and built as a complete one piece product, combining a steel body and a holding interface. Additionally, PCD segments are brazed into the tool body. The PCD segments then go through the manufacturing process to meet the requirements of the finish tool geometries. This type of product is known in...

How using Near Net Shape Carbide Blanks can save you time!

One goal of the H.B. Advantage is to save our customers time when machining our blanks. By providing near net shape blanks, we can reduce the overall grinding time required to finish the blanks. We do this by adding features such as diameters, flutes, pockets, flats, coolant holes, etc. All machining is done in the...