Diamond Machining

BLOCK-HEAD® air bearing spindles are the industry standard for diamond turning, flycutting, and grinding. The world’s finest reflective and transmissive optics come from BLOCK-HEAD® spindle-equipped machines. The spindle’s accuracy and stiffness combine to provide a precise, stable axis of rotation even in interrupted cuts. In addition, our air bearing slides represent the state of the art in stiff, accurate linear motion, with ultra-smooth linear motors providing an influence-free drive. We have a well-equipped diamond machining department with a Moore Tool M-18 aspheric generator, a Moore #5 base modified for boring, and many Moore #3 machines, both CNC and manually controlled, modified for ultra-high-precision turning, boring, flycutting, grinding and shaping. Together with our own use of this department, we also offer our customers access so that they may evaluate special machine processes in a relaxed, supportive environment. With these powerful tools at our disposal, the workpiece material itself is the only limit to form accuracy.