Carbide Vs Ceramic

You simply want to use the ceramic only.

Carbide vs ceramic. If it wont sharpen with the ceramic. In comparison ceramic is quite the opposite and is considered to be very lightweight. Used primarily on metal applications. Overtime ceramic gets gunked up with the metal shavings it removes and has to be cleaned to a new surface in order to be usable.

Other types of non ceramic abrasives used on sharpening stones are going to be cubic boron nitride or cbn and diamonds. Ceramics are extremely tough sharp and long. There are actually many types of ceramic abrasives that you could use. These hi performance grains have the ability to constantly resharpen as they wear providing fast cutting action through their usable life.

The bond is complex and hybrid with a percentage of metallic bonding covalent bonding and ionic bonding. Tungsten carbide is heavier than ceramic when compared to a ring of the same size. These hard sharp grains cut glass plastic and metal well under light pressure but silicon carbide is not a tough mineral. Ceramics are sometimes sintered heated to bond the particles without a secondary glue.

Ceramic i feel is generally a good improvement over the tungsten carbide as it doesn t eat away nearly as much material. The downside to ceramic in this form is it is nearly impossible to clean. Sic or silicon carbide is a trpye of ceramic. Both will remove metal faster and last longer than all aluminum oxide or silicon carbide products.

Some people like the heft of tungsten carbide as it is quite dense and the most similar to traditional metals like gold or platinum though tungsten is a bit heavier. Silicon carbide is sharper and harder than standard forms of aluminum oxide. It has needle like grains that resemble shards of broken glass. Both grains are considered hi performance.

The definitions of ceramics have changed greatly since early days. This is evident also by the properties of pure tungsten carbide. It is much tougher than ceramics it has dislocations with some degree of mobility although not comparable to metals and it has free electrons for thermal and electrical conduction whilst being hard beyond 2500 hv and. Pure tungsten carbide wc is an interstitial compound of a transition metal tungsten and carbon.

Then use the carbide first to repair recut the blade.