The daily grind of metalworking presents challenges. Tools wear out. Standard tools don’t always fit the needs of a job. Factory lead time for new tools can take too long.

Where can a customer turn for tool resharpening services? For modifications to existing tools? Or for a specialty tool at lightning speed?

Your solution: X-Press Tool

X-Press Tool, a BlackHawk Industrial company, builds and reconditions high-performance tools for the manufacturing sector. Founded in 1986, X-Press Tool is a CNC and manual cutter grinding shop with state-of-the-art facilities in Springfield, MA and Chicago, IL. X-Press Tool has been part of the BlackHawk family of companies since 2013.

X-Press Tool offers three valuable services to clients who need quality work done to spec — and fast:

• Tool resharpening
• Tool modification
• Tool manufacturing from standard blanks

X-Press Tool delivers incomparable value. Our precision work means you can put your tools to work with 100% confidence. Our incredible speed guarantees your delivery date. And our versatility allows us to adapt to complex geometries from the most respected names in tooling.

Tool resharpening restores worn pieces to virtually good-as-new, factory-spec condition. X-Press Tool specializes in putting a new edge on carbide tools. Why bother with the downtime needed to resharpen tools yourself?  Send them to us!  We’ll return your refreshed tools, ready to perform to your most exacting standards.

Tool alterations may consist of sizing, adding a custom radius or chamfer, or custom step drills and step end mills made from existing tooling or blanks.

The tools we work with include:
• Drills 
• Step drills 
• Keyway cutters 
• Counterbores 
• Countersinks 
• Milling cutters 
• Reamers 
• Oil hole drills 
• Saws 
• End mills 
• Dovetails 
• Form tools 
• Spade drills 
• Matched milling cutter sets 
• Taps 
• Subland drills 
• Brazed carbide tool bits 
• Core drills 
• Port tools 
• Straight flute drills 

X-Press timing! Weekend turnaround

Here’s one example of the value X-Press Tool can bring.

Late one Thursday afternoon a desperate customer contacted X-Press Tool. They needed a custom Step Drill for a particular machining application in hand by the following Tuesday morning — less than five days away.

Working from the customer’s schematic, X-Press Tool quickly designed the drill. X-Press Tool completed the engineering, manufactured the drills over the weekend and shipped them Next Day Air on Monday. X-Press Tool managed to save 15 hours in manufacturing time. The relieved customer was overjoyed by X-Press Tool’s ability to pull them out of a jam with such a fast turnaround.

Put X-Press Tool to the Test

Let X-Press Tool demonstrate how you can realize significant cost savings. Join the regrind program. Try X-Press on a specialty manufacturing job. See how combined operations can save you time and money.

For a quick quote on a specialty tool job, contact X-Press Tool at [email protected].

Once you accept the quote, cut a purchase order to X-Press to begin the job. It’s that easy.