The rasp cutter also has the second official name "corn", which is assigned to it due to the similarity of the shape with the ear of a famous grain crop. It has a large number of edges both on the end side and along the diameter of the working surface, it is used:
- For roughing and chamfering in metal or soft non-ferrous materials.
- When cutting sheet plywood, chipboard, fiberboard, plastic or wood.
Used in hand tools or machine tools, including those equipped with CNC. Today buy cutters "corn" of the required parameter can be done using the online catalog of their supplier to the domestic market from well-known manufacturers.
Classification of corn cutters
To simplify the procedure for selecting the required corn cutter using the online supplier catalog, it is necessary to take into account their classification by the number of cutting planes:
- Single-cut - used for processing soft non-ferrous alloys or viscous polymer materials.
- Double-start - the milling cutter, during operation, throws the generated chips upward due to the presence of 2 cutting planes. Used when working with non-fusible (mainly wood) materials.
- Three or four-way - used in a conveyor or mass production cycle due to the fact that they are able to remove a large amount of material from the workpiece in one pass.
More complete information is available in the technical description of each cutter model on the supplier's website. All cutting tools presented in the online catalog have guarantees of quality and reliability.
