Kennametal Inc.

Gerald Natter

Christoph Gey

Naveen Kumar Kondameedi

Joseph Velesig

In one aspect, methods of fabricating cutting tools employing ultrahard materials are described herein. A method of making a cutting tool comprises electronically loading a cutting tool pattern into a laser machining system and providing a blank to the laser machining system, the blank comprising a layer of ultrahard material. The cutting tool pattern is administered to the blank via a single laser processing step to form the cutting tool including at least one as-formed cutting edge comprising the ultrahard material and having an edge radius less than 10 &#x3bc;m. The single laser processing step can provide the cutting tool in final form, thereby obviating further processing steps.

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Gerald Natter