How was the diamond blade made?

diamond cutting blade

If you can only cut a diamond with a diamond, how was the first diamond blade made? Or like the first diamond cutting tool.

Diamonds can be cut. They can also be cleaved, which is what you sometimes see in movies, where someone puts an edged doohickey against a diamond and taps it with a hammer. The diamond has a regular structure inside of it, sort of like the scaffolding of a building. A knowledgeable person can determine where the planes are, and make use of them.

A diamond blade having a cutting section consisting of diamond abrasive grains and attached to the outer peripheral edge of a substrate in order to decrease the wear of the under-head region of a cutting diamond blade, characterized in that at least either the front or the back of the substrate is provided with an island-shaped cutting section separated from the first-mentioned cutting section, an extended cutting section extending toward the center of the substrate or an approximately U-shaped profiled cutting section. Also a method of producing diamond blades, characterized by simultaneously performing the sintering of the cutting section and the binding of it with the substrate.

The natural diamond crystal is not always big, we can call the small diamond crystal as diamond powder, they can be mixed with other metal powder to compose diamond segments, diamond segments are welded on blank core blade, then one new diamond blade is made, you can use this diamond blade to cut diamonds.

Another, do you know there is a word called "artifical"? People can make artifical diamond now! Most of the diamond tools are made from artifical diamond crystal nowadays.

No, it is not just diamond that can cut diamond. An ordinary steel saw will cut diamond. It's just that the diamond cuts back. If you cut 1 cm into a diamond, then you might have to use up 100 cm of steel.

Source(s):http://www.bladeconcrete.com/