Safety First: Real CNC Shop Incidents and What They Teach Us In CNC shops, safety isn’t optional—it’s essential. These true stories from real customers show how small lapses in maintenance or communication can lead to near-disasters. We’re sharing them to help prevent similar incidents and keep your team safe. The Importance of Tool Maintenance Tool […]

PCD (polycrystalline diamond) premill cutters are often the “forgotten” tool on an edgebander. They may run for a year or more without needing to be sharpened and so noone thinks much about them until they get dull.

What is Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD) Tooling? PCD (Polycrystalline Diamond) has been used in the wood/composites industry for over 40 years due to its abrasion resistant properties and hardness.  This synthetic cutting edge material was pioneered by the DeBeers company (famed for their natural diamond mining history) and General Electric’s Specialty Materials Division.   Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD […]

Megaspeed PCD Router Bit for Excellent Edge Finish and Highest Feed Rates Our Megaspeed PCD bit offers a sturdy tool body with helically positioned, aggressive cutting angles that have a compression style shear effect.  This tool is bottom cutting, so can be used for rebating, jointing and panel sizing on particleboard, MDF and other wood […]

Diamond and Insert Trimmers for Edgebanders GDP Tooling (previously under the GUHDO banner since 1986), offers a wide range of tooling for most edgebanders, to include straight and radius trimmers and their replacement inserts/scrape knives, snip saws, and diamond (PCD) premill cutters.  Our PCD tools are manufactured per specifications of the original OEM for all edgebander […]

PCD High Shear Bit – Designed for High Feed Rates This high shear PCD (polycrystalline diamond) router bit is designed to run at high feed rates while still providing an excellent finish quality. This tool is supplied with a high-density steel tool body and depending on the cutting diameter, is offered with either 2,  3 […]

Tooling for Alucobond Alucobond is a type of sandwich panel which was first introduced in 1969 and is now widely used in the residential and commercial construction industries. This ACM, (aluminum composite material) consists of two sheets of smooth 0.02” aluminum, thermobonded to a polyethylene core. The result is a light composite material that offers many […]

Tooling Basics for CNC Machining Below is an article GDP|GUHDO contributed to FDMCdigital.com January 2015 edition (formerly FDM/Cabinetmaker)    Understanding fundamentals of CNC tooling can make a huge difference in your costs, productivity, and efficiency.  Most CNC machining centers for wood, plastics and composite machining today are equipped with steep taper ISO/SK/BT style, or more frequently […]

Comparing the costs of diamond vs carbide tooling leads up to clear data on which is most cost effective for CNC cutting.

High Speed and PCD Insert Jointing/Premill Cutter Heads We have a wide range of Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD) jointing /premill cutter heads for a variety of edgebanders,  including Biesse, Brandt, Cehisa, Holzher, Homag, SCM and Stefani. For demanding or high speed applications, we offer a cutter head that provides impressive results. These high performance PCD cutter heads […]

Diamond is known as a material with impressive characteristics. Even the name, Diamond, which stems from the ancient Greek word  “αδάμας” – “adámas,” translates to unbreakable. In particular diamond is the hardest mineral known and also has the highest thermal conductivity. These two traits, in addition to its abrasion-resistance…..

Exterior Door and Window Tooling for CNC Machines Produce beautiful exterior (cope, stick & raise panel) doors and windows on your CNC router or machining center (Anderson, Biesse, CMS, Heian, Holzher, Homag/Weeke, Northwood, Onsrud, SCM Routech, etc.) with precision insert tooling designed to your custom or standard profile.  The process begins with you sending us a […]