How To Make A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades.

How to make a wood turning parting tool. The blank is already heat treated so no special metallurg. You turn your blank round between centers on the lathe. The negative rake grind on this carbide tipped parting tool is designed to slice through any of these materials.

Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades. BA DA Bing BA DA Boom. Put the radius on the side youll be moving into the cut.

Clamping parting tool blade and wood handles with 5 minute eposy. This tool comes with a replaceable stainless steel cutter blade that contains a permanent mounted Negative Rake Carbide Cutter for smooth clean parting through all materials with no sharpening required. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool.

The idea is to turn an old used sawzall blade into to tool make a handle of wood and used some epoxy and brass rod for rivets or whatever they are called in knive handles. Next I needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. If you thought your other Simple Woodturning Tools cut good wait till you try this one.

Handle blanks one is chiseled out to hold the sawzall blade and the other is chiseled out to hold some of the 5 minute epoxy. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. The trick to this is the parting tool.

Cutting technique as well as different uses for the tool are covered. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon.