Diamond Tools Built for America’s Infrastructure Projects

For hard or cured concrete, a soft-bond segmented blade, sized to your saw and run wet wherever possible. For fresh or green concrete, a harder bond with undercut protection, because green concrete is abrasive and will erode a soft blade before the diamonds have done their work.

Because the bond has to wear away to keep exposing fresh diamond. In hard, dense material a soft matrix erodes at the rate the aggregate demands, so the blade keeps cutting. A hard bond holds worn diamonds in place, the rim polishes over, and the blade stops cutting — that is glazing, and pressing harder makes it worse.

Roughly one third of its diameter. A 14 inch blade cuts a little over four inches. If you need more depth than that, you need a larger machine or a cut from both sides — not more pressure.

Wet whenever the saw allows it. Wet cutting typically gives two to three times the blade life of the same blade run dry, produces a cleaner cut, and controls respirable silica dust. Dry blades are for short cuts where water is impractical, and they should be paired with vacuum dust collection.

Match it to your saw. Handheld saws are commonly 7/8 inch or 5/8 inch, and high-speed and walk-behind saws often 1 inch or 20mm. Bushings adapt some combinations, but check the saw before ordering rather than after.

Yes. We supply public works departments, highway and bridge crews, utility contractors and heavy civil operators, and we are used to quoting against a written specification. If you have a line item you need matched, send it and we will tell you exactly what it specifies.