Video: The World’s Best Cutting Tools

As is well known, cutting tool design plays a huge role in machining. We see that jobs once considered impossible can be done with certain cutting tools, and that materials considered extremely difficult to machine can be cut like cheese. In this respect, the role of cutting tools in machining is a subject worth studying entirely on its own.

You won’t believe what these CNC cutting tools, presented as the world’s best cutting tools, can do — with incredible feed rates and material removal, even without using any coolant.

These advances in cutting tool technology are, of course, not the result of a single day’s work or random developments. They’re the outcome of research carried out over many years by university mechanical engineering departments, published scientific papers, knowledge shared at inter-university chairs and seminars, and R&D and experimental work carried out by companies with large budgets.

Some of these were discovered through trial and error, while the vast majority were developed with the support of mathematical-geometric and angular calculations, materials science, and accumulated knowledge of material behavior.

Cutting Tool Technology in Our Country

Today, tool design (especially for machining) is taught as a course in many universities’ mechanical engineering departments. However, the number of university faculties in our country that allocate sufficient budget for R&D work on tool design is limited.

Private sector companies are leading the way on this front. For example: Takımsaş. Operating in Istanbul’s Yenibosna district since it began production in 1987, the company meets a large share of our country’s machining industry’s cutting tool needs, and even engages in export activities.