Carbide China Cutter Insert Milling are tools that have the end of the tool, or the tip, coated with carbide, and is used to make cuts through some of the toughest materials known. So, how did we arrive at the place where carbide was invented and the use became so widespread?  Well, carbide was a derivative of hard metal.  Until the turn of the century, and the onset of the industrial revolution, hard metal was the best the industry had to offer.  Unfortunately, the best the industry had to offer wasn’t all that good. Scientists and metal workers had already devoted a great deal of time to the creation of a harder substance, when, along came carbide.  What scientists and metal workers discovered, was that if you decrease the iron (Fe) with harder…