June 22, 2026

“Out of every ten Western shops that come to us for custom solid carbide drills, at least seven shatter the tool inside the hole during the first few passes. This happens simply because their parameters are either too conservative or too aggressive.” As a cutting tool manufacturer with 15 years of shop-floor technical support, this […]

As tooling specialists who spend every day in the shop battling difficult materials, we know exactly what deep-hole drilling demands. Last month, a North American automotive client reached out in a panic while mass-producing 12D deep holes in quenched 42CrMo steel. Their standard types of drill bits for metal were screeching halfway through, chips choked