Need a Perfect Cut in New Materials?

Switching panel cores, veneers, wood species or laminates can be a real adventure. A woodshop that’s changing suppliers or moving into new materials needs to figure out the best way to cut for clean edges and low rejects. Most of that transition hinges on having the best tooling.

Vortex Tool Company Inc. in Schofield, Wisconsin is a U.S. based manufacturer of solid carbide and insert tooling, and the company excels in helping woodshops through such transitions. For more than thirty years, the team at Vortex have been producing world class cutting tools for woodshops, and has done so with a stellar reputation built on a customer-driven attitude and unmatched technical support.

Vortex can supply custom tooling for the perfect cut.

“As technology changes,” says co-owner Matt Serwa, “we have woodworkers call us more and more about new materials that they’ve never cut before. They’ll send us the material to test, and we’ll figure out if they need a custom tool or perhaps an existing stock tool that will give them the best results.”

Vortex’s engineering team will also help a shop work out processing issues. Those include recommendations on aspects such as feed and speed, or the optimum depth of cut per pass.

“We also have customers that will send us profiles that they’re trying to match,” says Serwa. “For example, they might be doing a restoration project where they need to replicate crown molding that’s a century old, or perhaps match a cabinetry profile or door stile and rail in an older house that’s being renovated.”

Another example of Vortex’s versatility is the ability to create a custom tool that can eliminate multiple cutters. Not only will this deliver the perfect cut because profiles don’t need to line up after separate passes, but the shop also gains time and efficiency by not having to make multiple tool changes.

Manufacturing custom tools for a woodshop typically requires a turn-around time of just fifteen days.

Vortex also distributes major cutting tool brands, and offers expert sharpening and re-tipping. In house, the company produces tools with cutting edges in various grades of carbide, stellite, high-speed steel, and polycrystalline diamond.

For woodshops exploring new materials, looking at higher operating speeds, or searching for significantly longer edge life, the customer care team at Vortex has is the answer.

VORTEX TOOL COMPANY
Web: www.vortextool.com
Email: info@vortextool.com
Phone: (800) 355 7708