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WhizCut Original

Groove Turning

Use WhizCut Original fully ground inserts for groove turning to improve efficiency and streamline your production processes.
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Efficient groove turning with one pass

Optimize your groove turning with WhizCut Original inserts, specifically designed for Swiss-type lathes. These cutting tools can plunge to maximum depth and turn in one pass, reducing cycle time and tool changes. Ideal for parts with various grooves, wide grooves, or multiple 90° corners, using a single insert can notably cut cycle times.

Advantages of WhizCut Original groove turning

  • Efficient grooving: Machine wider grooves in a single tool pass with WhizCut Original.
  • Versatile tooling: One insert can handle multiple operations.
  • Plunge and turn: WhizCut Original inserts eliminate the need for multiple plunging, significantly reducing cycle times in your CNC machine.
  • Precision grooving: Ideal for tight tolerance grooving or when various groove sizes are required.

Straight grooves and perfect surface finish

Machining parts with multiple grooves is time-consuming, but WhizCut Original A-style groove turning inserts allow for a single-pass process, combining grooving and turning. These inserts ensure perfectly straight grooves and an exceptional surface finish.

WhizCut Original J-type groove turning tools, with sharp edges and positive rake angles, ensure excellent chip control and low cutting pressures, enabling grooving of even the smallest parts. These tools handle tasks conventional tooling can’t. For radial turning, check out WhizCut Original K-type inserts and tool holders.

WhizCut Original groove turning inserts come in widths from 0,3 to 3 millimeters, making it easy to find the perfect tool. They are available in flat top, positive cutting rake angles, and various radiuses.

More about J-type turning

A perfect combination of cutting rakes, shapes, corner configurations, chip control, and grades. WhizCut’s J-type turning inserts are precision-engineered to provide optimal clearance and exceptional stability during axial machining.

These inserts are angled in the tool holder to enhance performance and are fully compatible with all WhizCut tool holder ranges, ensuring seamless integration and superior machining results. Using the stable J-type tool holders, you get optimal reliefs for all turning applications.

WhizCut’s J-type inserts are suitable for a wide range of materials, including stainless steel, titanium, aluminum, high-temperature alloys, and hardened steels.

WhizCut Original J-type inserts and tool holders are engineered for optimal performance in:

Product tables

Groove turning inserts — WhizCut Original

Inserts for groove turning | Style A

Filter inserts:

InsertsRight/LeftLBARRake angle8MB8C8F8ND8T8
J11EL A0-03-0Left110,20,30---
J11EL A0-20-0Left111,320
J11EL A12-08-03Left110,50,80,0312°--
J11EL A12-20-0Left111,32012°-
J15EL A12-24-0Left151,52,4012°-
J15EL A12-24-1Left151,52,40,112°-
J11ER A0-03-0Right110,20,30-
J11ER A0-08-0Right110,50,80-
J11ER A0-08-03Right110,50,80,03--
J11ER A0-20-0Right111,320--
J11ER A12-20-0Right111,32012°-
J11ER A12-20-2Right111,320,212°--
J15ER A0-03-0Right150,20,30--
J15ER A0-05-0Right150,30,50--
J15ER A0-08-0Right150,50,80-
J15ER A12-08-0Right150,50,8012°---
J15ER A12-08-05Right150,50,80,0512°---
J15ER A0-08-03Right150,50,80,03-
J15ER A0-08-05Right150,50,80,05-
J15ER A0-12-0Right150,751,20
J15ER A12-12-0Right150,751,2012°-
J15ER A0-12-05Right150,751,20,05-
J15ER A12-12-05Right150,751,20,0512°-
J15ER A0-16-0Right1511,60-
J15ER A12-16-0Right1511,6012°-
J15ER A12-16-05Right1511,60,0512°
J15ER A0-24-0Right151,52,40
J15ER A12-24-0Right151,52,4012°
J15ER A12-24-08Right151,52,40,0812°
J15ER A12-24-1Right151,52,40,112°-
J15ER A12-40-0Right152 4*012°
J15ER A12-40-1Right152 4*0,112°-
J15ER A12-40-2Right152 4*0,212°-
J20ER A0-3-0Right20230-
J20ER A0-5-0Right203 5*0-
J20ER A12-3-0Right2023012°--
J20ER A12-3-1Right20230,112°-
J20ER A12-5-0Right203 5*012°-
J20ER A12-5-2Right203 5*0,212°-
* DOC alteration of holder needed to reach full cutting depth.
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