Send the print.
Get the tool.
Keep it on file.
Solid carbide specials, ground in Wichita to your print: step tools, form tools, specials nobody stocks. Quote it once. After that it's your tool, on file: reorder with a PO number and nothing gets re-explained.
Send a printon file
Your tooling file at Star Tool
ACME-2217-B · step drill, 3 diameters
last run: 25 pcs · reorders: 6
ACME-1104 · 5/8 rougher, .060R
last run: 50 pcs · reorders: 11
ACME-3310 · form tool per print
last run: 12 pcs · reorders: 3
Print to quote, in writing.
1
Send the print
PDF, DXF, STEP, or mail us the worn tool and a napkin sketch. A grinder reads it, not a sales portal.
2
We quote it straight
One price, one lead time, in writing. If something on the print will fight the grinder, you hear about it before we quote, not after you've paid for it.
3
It goes on file
Geometry, coating, tolerances: saved. Reorders are a PO number, not a project. Blanket orders welcome.
“Your tool on file” is the whole point.
The third reorder is where custom tooling usually falls apart somewhere else. A different operator, a lost spec, a tool that almost matches the last batch. On file at Star Tool means the tool you liked is the tool you get. Every time.
same tool. tenth batch.
that's the product.
that's the product.
What “on file” saves
Geometry & tolerancesSAVED
Coating & edge prepSAVED
Material & blank sizeSAVED
Your part numberSAVED
Re-explaining any of itNEVER
We regrind our specials too, and you'll know the price before you buy the tool.
A special from anywhere else is a tool only they can service, at whatever that costs this year. When we quote a Star Tool special, the regrind price is on the same quote, priced for that tool and kept on its file with everything else.
Specials are more intricate than a standard end mill, so they don't ride the published sheet. But you'll never send one back wondering what sharp costs.
Custom 3/4″ step tool (example)$[XXX]
Regrind - priced on the original quote$[XX]
Recoat, by diameter × OAL$26.45
Every life after the firsta fraction of new
Send a print
Attach the print or describe the tool. A real person quotes it, usually the person who'll grind it. Quote back in writing.
napkin sketches
honestly fine
honestly fine
Prefer email? Send the print straight to sales@startoolusa.com