Custom Products

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! You see, we've been making custom products and specialty blades in a broad assortment of sizes and shapes pretty well since our founding. In fact, it was Isaac Hyde's ability to make blades that others could not that got the company up and running back in the late 1800's.

Some examples of custom blades and parts 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

As you can see, the types of blades and component parts really are not limited by 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 the steels in stock 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.

Basic shapes are formed either through blanking or laser cutting. A state-of-the-art CO2 laser offers you tight tolerance cutting, along with tremendous speed and flexibility processing orders. In addition to our laser cutting capability, you have a variety of presses available, up to 100 ton capacity, and full die room capabilities to support your requirements. Our forming capabilities mean you have the flexibility with one source to handle extremely large order quantities as well as very small order quantities.

The heat treat/temper department offers three types of furnaces - both atmosphere and vacuum furnaces as well as computerized carousel salt bath furnaces - capable of hardening blades up to 64 Rc. Our in-house heat treat and temper capabilities mean we can process your parts up to 24" diameter circular parts and up to 36" long straight or shaped parts (72" if not heat treated), and everything in between!

Through our extensive experience manufacturing putty knives, paint scrapers, industrial blades and other tools, Hyde has the broadest, most developed and experienced grinding department in the industry. Whether its surface grinding, Blanchard grinding, or CNC-controlled multi-axis grinding, you can tap into the capability and experience to put just about any edge onto your item - beveled, scalloped, toothed serrated, slotted or whatever your edge requirements may be.

And all of this is supported with our own millwrights and machinists. In fact, we've developed a lot of our own equipment, as the machines available commercially 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 are critical functions that will affect the performance of your blade or part in use. With over a century of experience in 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.