Custom Blades
Do you need blades that aren’t circular or straight in shape? Are you looking for fabricated parts or assemblies? That’s not a problem for Hyde!
We’ve been making custom knife products and specialty blades in a broad assortment of sizes and shapes pretty much since our founding.
Our founder, Isaac Hyde, could make highly custom blades that others could not—and this is what got the company up and running back in the late 1800s. Some examples of custom blades, knives, and parts that we’ve made include:
- Blades for hand cutters
- Profile bars
- Support plates
- Separator discs
- Custom-shaped machine knives
- Machine brackets
- Gusset plates
- Guide casings
- Tool blanks
- Clutch plates
- Wear plates
- Packaging components
- Butt plates for rifles
- And More!
Blanking and Laser Cutting
As you can see, the types of blades and component parts are not limited by their shape or end-use – if you can design it, the odds are pretty good that Hyde can make it!
Hyde stocks a wide range of steel types and dimensions, so you can get your parts made in the alloy you want on the date you need it. Some of our in-stock steels include A2, M2, D2, 420 DIN, 440, tool steels, 410 Stainless, 1074, 1095, 310 Stainless, S7, C.V., A11, A7, and 4130. Don’t see the steel you need? Just ask – we’ll get it for you.
We form basic shapes through blanking or laser cutting. A state-of-the-art CO2 laser provides tight tolerance cutting, tremendous speed, and flexibility in processing orders.
We also have a wide variety of up to 10-ton capacity presses, including a full die room. Our forming capabilities mean that you have the flexibility with one source to handle extremely large or minimal order quantities.
Heat and Temper Treatment
The heat-treat/temper department offers three types of furnaces—atmosphere, vacuum, and computerized carousel salt baths. These furnaces are capable of hardening blades up to 64 Rc.
Our in-house heat-treat and temper capabilities allow us to process up to 24″ diameter circular parts, 36″ long straight or shaped parts, or 72″ (if not heat-treated).
Hyde has extensive experience manufacturing putty knives, paint scrapers, industrial blades, and other tools. This has given us the broadest, most developed, and experienced grinding department in the industry.
Grinding and Machining
Whether it’s surface grinding, Blanchard grinding, or CNC-controlled multi-axis grinding, Hyde can put just about any type of edge onto your item!
We can create beveled, scalloped, toothed serrated, slotted, or whatever edge you need.
And all of this is supported by our in-house millwrights and machinists. We’ve had to custom-develop many of our internal manufacturing machines, as commercially available ones just couldn’t do what we wanted them to do!
Steel choice, edge finish style, bevel angle, edge thickness, surface micro finish, hone technique, flatness, side run-out—all of these are critical functions that will affect your blade’s performance or part in use.
With over a century of experience providing the right specifications to optimize performance, you know you’ve found a dependable partner in Hyde. Tell us what your equipment is designed to cut, and we’ll build you the part you need to accomplish it.
D&S CUSTOM KNIVES AND BLADES
We manufacture our D&S precision custom knives to individual specifications and exacting tolerances. This provides our customers with the highest possible yield.
Our engineering staff are available to ensure improved re-engineering designs and provide unique application experience and support.
Our in-house inspection process ensures consistency with every custom knife we manufacture. Installation and setup are simplified, and proper gaping provides for a high-quality finished product. The result is the lowest-costing and longest-lasting blades in the industry.
D&S precision custom knives are available in standard Moly-Chrome, Super Moly-Chrome, Ultra Alloy, as well as customer specified materials. Our customers rely on D&S precision custom knives to perform beyond expectation, and we back our products with a comprehensive warranty.
- Unique selection of materials.
- Better than original performance.
- Precision manufactured on all surfaces for an accurate and secure fit.
- Close tolerances held for matching components.
- Highest yield resulting in the lowest cost.
- Proven results in adverse applications.
- Reduced downtime and less maintenance resulting in significant cost reduction through increased productivity.
Proudly manufactured in the USA.
Learn More About Our Custom Blades and Knives
With over 100 years of experience, Hyde IBS can design and create a custom blade that will solve the toughest of your manufacturing challenges. Learn more!