ISCAR Turning Grades Chart Recommended Applications A cermet grade, used for grooving and turning applications. Recommended for semi-finishing and finishing operations when excellent surface finish is required. Wear resistant, prevents built-up edge. A cermet grade. Provides excellent resistance to wear and plastic deformation even at high cutting speeds and medium feeds. Useful for turning and milling of semi-finishing and finishing applications. An uncoated, fine grain carbide grade. Used for stainless steel and high temperature alloys at low to medium cutting speeds. MATERIALS AND GRADES An uncoated carbide grade. Used for semi-finishing, finishing and semi-roughing of aluminum, cast iron and stainless steel. Used at low to medium speeds and feeds. Super fine grain PCBN with a very high CBN content for machining ferrous sintered metals. Extra fine grain PCBN, enables grinding a very sharp edge used for finish turning of hardened steel, providing excellent surface finish. TiN PVD coated, fine grain PCBN substrate. Used for high speed, continuous turning of hardened steel, providing excellent surface finish. Fine grain, very hard PCBN grade for machining valve seats, sintered metals and Ti alloys. A combination of coarse and fine grain PCBN, used for general and interrupted cutting of hardened steel. Ti (C,N,O) PVD coated, very tough PCBN, used for general cutting of hardened steel. Ti (C,N,O) PVD coated, medium grain size PCBN substrate. Used for medium and light interrupted cut turning of hardened steel. A 50% CBN brazed tip, used for finishing hardened steel (45-65 HRc) and nodular cast iron in continuous cutting. A 55% CBN brazed tip, used for finishing hardened steel (45-65 HRc) in continuous cutting. An 85% CBN brazed tip, used for high speed turning of cast iron, cemented tungsten carbide, sintered metals and heavy alloys. Excellent for interrupted cutting of hardened steel. A 90% CBN brazed tip, used for high speed cutting of cast iron, cemented tungsten carbide, sintered metals and heavy alloys. Excellent for interrupted cutting of hardened steel. A PCD brazed tip, suitable for machining aluminum (Si < 12%) and copper alloys and general cutting of nonferrous materials. 559