How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. You want to chisel out the handle a little deeper than the blade thickness to allow for some epoxy to get between the blade and the wood handle on both sides. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. Parting is one of the most misunderstood machining operations on the lathe.

Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar. I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off.

Notice there is a lot of positive back rake on the tool as well as plenty of side relief. Simple Parting Tool technical details. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank.

Gouges include options like a bowl gouge spindle gouge and grind bowl gouge. Remember this position because its where you start when you roll a convex surface. Max cutting depth - 3 12 Overall tool length 12 Main tool shaft - Solid Steel 34 square.

I was working on a handle for a gouge blade. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish. This cut is always at right angles to the axis of the lathe.

With the lathe Off place the tool about 12 to the right of the groove and find the position where the cutting edge just begins to engage the wood with the bevel rubbing. You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store. Using My New Parting Tool.