Kennametal Inc.

Joseph Velesig

Christoph Gey

Naveen Kumar Kondameedi

Norm Dimatteo

Joshua Singley

Gerald Natter

A modified honing brush is provided comprising one or more bristles and one or a plurality of reusable stackable plates having one or more holes or voids located in the plates, or one or more support guides, and wherein each of the bristles is independently fitted through one or more of the holes or voids of the plates or surrounded by one or more support guides.

Honing brush length adjustment

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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West Lebanon, PA, United States of America

Joseph Velesig