Flattening / Surfacing Carbide | Diamond Cup

Curious Why do you need to surface your carbide file guide...
Do you have deep gouges in it?
 
Make a threaded arbor to fit the ID of the cup wheel and your 3/4 R8 collet
 
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Curious Why do you need to surface your carbide file guide...
Do you have deep gouges in it?
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The inserts I ordered weren't perfectly flat from the MSI. I got them damn close by hand with a diamond stone, but it would be nice to have the option to surface them when/if needed.
 
Going out on a limb here...I've seen Tru Grit sells some "diamond micron" belts. Would those cut carbide? I know you're not really hogging material and you have that surface grinder attachment. Maybe super glue them to a surface ground bar of steel and hit them with a diamond belt on your surface grinder attachment? It's a long shot, sorry dude. I wonder how Bill Behnke gets his carbide flat for his file guides. I saw your video where you made yours, those carbide strips really made the process hard. I admire that you want to make your own tools, but it made me glad I bought mine :).

EDIT: After searching a bit more, seems like no one really has any like grinding carbide with any kind of belt.
 
I was going to suggest the same thing with the surface grinder and gluing them to some flat stock. Maybe try it with silicone carbide belts before diamond belts. They're much cheaper, and worst case you wasted a few bucks.
 
Resin Bonded Diamond wheels can be dressed/trued with a scrap of mild steel. Just give it a pass with an aluminum oxide dressing stick afterwards to open the pores back up. There are better ways to do it, but it involves more complicated and costly dressing tools.
 
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