Diamond Blades

• Concrete Diamond Blades - From 12" to 36" diameter for concrete cutting.
• General Purpose Diamond blades - Choose from 4" to 20" diameter, those blades perform well in a variety of different materials.
• Asphalt Green Concrete Blades - Diamond blades designed to cut abrasive materials like control joints in green concrete or Asphalt.
• Masonry Diamond Blades From 4" to 14" diameter, cuts brick, blocks, concrete paver's. For use with your saw or power tools.
• Crack Chaser & Tuck Point - Specialty diamond blades for removing mortar or opening cracks in concrete.
• Ring Blades & Diamond Chain - Specialty diamond blades for deep cutting in concrete.

How Diamond Blades Work.
Diamond blades provide cutting through mutual erosion of the material (concrete, etc.) and the segment, or rim, of the diamond blade. Diamond crystals are embedded throughout a blade's rim, suspended in a metal matrix. As the crystals either get crushed or fall out of the rim, it is essential that the matrix wears down at an optimal rate to expose new diamond to continue efficient cutting. If the matrix fails to wear down fast enough, the rim will glaze over and cutting will become much more difficult and slow. If the matrix wears down too quickly, crystals will be lost before their usefulness has expired. The blade may appear to cut very fast, but the life of the blade will be greatly shortened.

The Rule to Remember
Soft blades cut hard materials, and hard blades cut soft materials.As a general rule, you need a blade with a softer matrix to cut hard, less abrasive materials such as cured concrete, brick, tile or stone. Conversely, you need a blade with a harder matrix to resist the excessive abrasion of softer materials such as green concrete, asphalt or block.

Defining Value
You want an optimum balance between cutting speed and blade life to get the best overall value for your blade.

A number of factors affect the wear rate of rims and overall performance of diamond blades. These include:

Blade Life vs Cutting Speed
Typically, there is an inverse relationship between cutting speed and blade life. If a saw operator makes a change, such as increasing cutting pressure to make a blade cut faster, blade life will tend to be shortened as a result. Likewise, if an operator wanted to extend the blade's life, he could reduce cutting pressure and cut slower. Each job is different and labor cost also needs to be added to the equation to arrive at the most cost-efficient solution.