How To Make Wood Lathe Turning Tools

To make most tools you need to be able to turn a handle drill a hole cut a piece of steel tap the hole in the steel and put it all together.

How to make wood lathe turning tools. Al takes a common sense approach to making woodturning tools that will save you a ton of money. For both round and square bars mount the blank on the lathe between centres and turn round. Usually a piece of 12 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular carbide cutter that is screwed onto the steel shaft and the far side of the shaft has a long wood handle.

Set the steel rod on the platform at a 70 degree angle to the grinding wheel. Turn a tenon on one end then mount it in a 4 jaw chuck with a live. 34 In Thread Size 1-18 Thread Connection Material of Construction Brass.

Since tapping is no harder than driving a screw you have probably done all this. We just have to put it all together and make a tool. Wood glue wont adhere to stainless steel but once youve got the clamps on you can always pull out the bar to be on the safe side.

Use wood glue to glue the two halves back together inserting the square bar in to help with alignment. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. In the video below he shows you some of his favorite tools and how he made them from either old broken or leftover tools that are made with hadened steel and all you need to do is put an edge on the tool and make a handle for it.

Leaving enough slack for turning a set screw is inserted to jam against the bolt much in the same manner as two nuts are used on a bolt to jam one another. This is necessary as the movement of the cutter will try to back out the bolt or to drive it tighter. Roughing gouges turn stock from the usual square shape to round shape while the spindle gauge creates coves even beads as well as other details.

Now Ill tell my short story. Lay the steel rod flat on the sharpening platform and set the angle of the platform at 90 degrees to the grinding wheel. If you find a wood turning lathe with a tool rest make sure to use a metal file to smooth out the part of the tool rest where your tools will glide and remove any dings or dents.