How to use our tools, properly.
Five application guides covering the materials our customers cut and drill every day — stone, concrete, metal, tile and the home workshop. Speeds, feeds, step-by-step method, troubleshooting and the exact EXTRACUT tools for each job.
Pick your application
Each guide is written for the person holding the tool: what to use, how fast to run it, how to spot trouble and how to fix it.
Stone Cutting
Natural and engineered stone is dense, abrasive and unforgiving. Almost every “bad blade” complaint traces back to three things: the wrong bond for the stone, a peripheral speed that is too…
Construction
Concrete is not one material. Standard C20–C40, heavily reinforced slabs and soft brick each want a different speed and a different tool. Getting the water flow right matters as much as the…
Metal Fabrication
Carbide-tipped blades cut metal; abrasive discs grind it away. A TCT blade removes a chip, runs far cooler and finishes almost burr-free. The trick is matching tooth count and rpm to the…
Tile & Ceramic
Porcelain is dense, glassy and unforgiving: it chips from vibration, cracks from shock and dulls a bit by polishing the bond over the diamond. Four habits — tape, low speed, water, and a…
DIY Workshop
Almost every DIY failure is the same failure: the wrong bit for the material, or too much speed and pressure. This page maps ten common home jobs to the right tool, the right speed and the…
Three steps to the right answer
Find your material
Every guide opens with a matching table: material in the left column, the tool and the numbers in the rest.
Set speed and water first
Almost every failure is a speed, feed or cooling problem. Get those three right before you touch the tool.
Order the exact tool
Each guide ends with the specific EXTRACUT products for that application, linked to their product pages.
Tell us the job. We will specify the tool.
Material, machine, finish and volume — send those four things and our engineers will come back with a blade, bond or bit recommendation and a quote.