A spiral down cut has blades which forces chips down back into your material. This has benefits of providing a perfect top finish to any wood type especially plys and top finishes. Made of a very high tungsten carbide material, down cut bits are the a weapon of choice in anyone's arsenal. Opposite to a spiral up cut, a down cut will give you a perfect top finish but a burred bottom finish if cutting all the way through. These bits therefore are most effective for engraving & lettering rather than cutting all the way through.
Suitable for
- Wood (MDF, hardwood, ply & softwoods)
Adam’s Tips
Just like a straight flute, a down cut creates a lot of dust as opposed to chips so make sure you have appropriate ventilation or dust extraction when cutting. On the plus side, the dust gets stuck and packed back into the slot you have made and keeps your cut item in place. This has the advantage of not having to use tabs or tape to hold your material down although can add time back in with the need to deburr the bottom edge.
| Feeds and Speeds - 2 Flute Down Cut mm per minute |
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| Wood | |||
| Item Code | Description | Soft | Hard |
| 1-1/8-DC-2F-4 | 1mm x 3.175mm x 4mm 2F | 1,300 | 650 |
| 1.5-1/8-DC-2F-6 | 1.5mm x 3.175mm x 6mm 2F | 2,000 | 1,000 |
| 2-1/8-DC-2F-8 | 2mm x 3.175mm x 8mm 2F | 2,750 | 1,400 |
| 1/8-1/8-DC-2F-17 | 3.175mm x 3.175mm x 17mm 2F | 3,900 | 1,950 |
| 1/8-1/8-DC-2F-22 | 3.175mm x 3.175mm x 22mm 2F | 3,100 | 1,550 |
| 4-4-DC-2F-22 | 4mm x 4mm x 22mm 2F | 4,800 | 2,400 |
| 6-6-DC-2F-22 | 6mm x 6mm x 22mm 2F | 11,950 | 6,000 |
| 3.175-6.35-DC-2F-17 | 3.175mm x 6.35mm x 17mm 2F | 3,900 | 1,950 |
| 4-6.35-DC-2F-22 | 4mm x 6.35mm x 22mm 2F | 4,800 | 2,400 |
| 6.35-6.35-DC-2F-22 | 6.35mm x 6.35mm x 22mm 2F | 13,850 | 6,950 |
| 8-8-DC-2F-32 | 8mm x 8mm x 32mm 2F | 16,900 | 8,450 |
| 10-10-DC-2F-52 | 10mm x 10mm x 52mm 2F | 14,300 | 7,150 |
| Revolutions per minute 16,000RPM | |||
| 100% width per cut slotting | |||
| Depth per cut Diameter x 1 | |||
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6mm & 3.2mm Dia 2 flute solid carbide Down cut
The quality of these cutters is insane for the price They remain super sharp and exhibit long life. I machine a lot of high end birch ply for furniture and picture frames ($300/sheet) and rely on super sharp down cut spiral cutters to give 100% splinter free cutting especially on the fine birch ply face laminate which is super thin. One splinter and its scrap. These cutters have never let me down and I use them pretty much across the board for all timber materials. You won't find a better carbide cutter for the price. For machining deep pockets and thick materials, I tend to use 6mm dia cutter as it provides more stability, less flexing during deep pocket cutting and swarf is more easily removed at the bottom of the pocket. For thin materials and less deep pocket cutting ,I use the 3.2mm diameter x 22mm long version.
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Amazing
As always Adam has delivered a top quality product! Blue carve’s service is unbeatable!
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2 flute down.
Cutting mfd. 12mm depth of pass. Make sure you ramp in rather than just plunge where possible. Definitely a go to bit.
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Efficacy of the brilliant bit bought
Works as well as it possibly could.
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Down cut tools
These down-cut tools work well, I have found them to be very good
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Cutting Tas Oak with downcut bit
I used this to cut a shape out of 35mm thick Tas Oak. It seemed to work well although the tip has overheated a bit in the last pass. Perhaps I was expecting too much from the bit. It burnt the edge in the last 8-4mm and the end of the bit is a blue colour, I have no idea if this has overheated to the point of it being soft. I didn't want to have the feed rate too high and risk breaking it but perhaps I should have used an upcut bit instead? Next time I'll experiment more and try a different bit. Worked well enough for the job though and I was happy with the result.
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Awesome end mill
The customer service is impeccable and I received the item extremely quickly. Definitely a great business with focus on customer service and high quality bits.
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2 FLUTE DOWN CUT CARBIDE END MILL
Great product, quality materials. Fast prompt Shipping. Highly Recommend for all CNC users in AUS.
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Clean cut
Packs MDF very well. Has eliminated tabs on most jobs for me.
