Great Lakes Industrial Knife manufactures Shear blades and Rotary shears for all machine makes and models as well as custom made to order.

Our Shear Blades and Rotary Shears are precision manufactured to extremely close tolerances.

  • Computerized inventory control
  • Stock delivery on standard knives
  • Short lead times on non stock blades
  • Expert in house sharpening service – match ground sets
  • Mig weld nick and chip repairs
  • Demagnetizing

Performance Engineered Metallurgy

  • High shock tool steels
  • D-2 High carbon/High chrome tool steel
  • ICE™ Inlaid Carbide Extreme

Shear Blades for All Makes & Models

  • Chicago
  • Hydrapower
  • Wean
  • Betenbender
  • American Hercules
  • Pexto
  • Amada
  • Atlantic
  • Pullmax
  • Wysong & Miles
  • Scottish
  • Cleveland Crane
  • Darley
  • Safan
  • Loopco
  • Dreis & Krump
  • Famco
  • Lodge & Shipley
  • Accur-Shear
  • Niagara
  • Edwards / Pearson
  • Herr-Voss
  • National
  • Murata Weidmann
  • Gatti
  • Rhodes
  • Roper-Whitney
  • Guifil
  • Stamco
  • Paxson
  • Di-Acro
  • Gary
  • Cincinnati
  • HTC
  • Pacific
  • LVD
  • Summit
  • Tennsmith
  • Promecam
  • Steelweld
  • Adira
  • Delta Brands
  • Morgan
  • Welty-Way
  • Yoder

Shear Blades Grinding Limits

Original Size Minimum Width (W) Minimum Thickness (T)
3.000 x 1.000 2-5/8″ 3/4″
4.000 x 1.000 3-5/8″ 3/4″
5.000 x 1.125 4-5/8″ 7/8″
5.500 x 1.50 5-1/8″ 1-1/4″
6.500 x 1.750 6-1/8″ 1-1/2″

Shear Blade Specifications - Great Lakes Industrial Knife