Custom and Modified Tools

For more information, e-mail engineering@sct-usa.com or call (805) 584-9495 during business hours.

Our Engineering Support Process

  1. We begin by understanding your specific requirements and objectives.

  2. We’ll engage with you and your team to gather details about the tool’s intended application, material specifications, and performance criteria.

  3. Based on your feedback, we’ll make any necessary adjustments before beginning the production process.

  4. Our commitment doesn’t end with delivery: we provide ongoing support to address any questions or concerns.

Why Our Support Stands Out

Who do you turn to when you need a custom or modified tool? At Scientific Cutting Tools, we understand the unique challenges you face. In addition to our standard ready-to-ship product groups, we have decades of experience helping our customers create custom or modified tools.

Our engineers possess a deep knowledge of tool design and manufacturing. Your custom or modified tools will be crafted with precision and reliability, leveraging our team’s years of cutting tool experience.

Custom Tooling

Scientific Cutting Tools applies the same caliber of craftsmanship and quality on customs as their standard tools. Highly knowledgeable and experienced engineers can assist with designs to create a precision custom tool for any job. Sub-micron carbide and special coating options are available. SCT has over sixty years of experience in the cutting tool industry to transform designs into valuable tools.

Thread Mills

  •  Special Thread Forms including:
    Trapezoidal, Buttress, and Whitworth

  •  ACME and Stub ACME specials

  •  Multiple starts

  • Special Threading Tools for Bone Screws and Plates

  • Special Forms

  • Modified Groove Specials

  • Face Grooving

Milling Tools

  • Special Profiles

  • Chamfer Mills 

  •  Locking Threads

  •  Serrations tools

  •  Custom tools to print

Port Tools

  •   Coolant Through

  •   Trepan Tools 

  •   Custom Tools to Print

  •   Autoclave

  •   Cavity

  •   Multi-step Port Tools

Single Point

  •   Buttress

  •   ACME & Stub ACME

  •   Custom Tools to Print

  •   Corner Rounders

  • Keyset Cutters

Modifications

Scientific Cutting Tools can modify many standard tools with fast turn around: most items within 5 working days. Modifications can help specific cutting needs for better function such as decreased tool pressure, helping prevent potential breakage, accessibility issues such as length or depth of cut.

Thread Mills

  • Reduce length-of-cut (cut off) to increase strength

  • Neck back thread mills for greater depth of cut

  •     Increase tool reach (“B” length)

  •     Modify groove width

  • Add coolant channels

  • Resharpen and recoat

  • Add shank flat or Weldon flat

Port Tools

  • Reduce spot face diameter or
    shank diameter

  • Reduce length of reamer pilot
    (“J” length)

  • Add corner radius

  • Add shank flat or Weldon flat

  • Add coolant holes

Single Point

  • Add radius to boring bar

  • Add or modify shank flat