How To Use A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

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.

How to use a wood lathe parting tool. This cut is always at right angles to the axis of the lathe. Used primarily for parting off pieces of wood. A basic wood lathe consists of a bed headstock tailstock and tool rest.

Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge.

With any parting tool start by placing the tool rest parallel to the workpiece and slightly below its centerline. Using My New Parting Tool. Turn the parting tool over and do the opposite side for the same amount of time.

So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep.

I find that locking my carriage is an essential step to take in order to maximize rigidity. Another important step is to make sure the cutting tip of your parting tool is right on the center line of the piece you are parting. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish.

Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar. Rigidity is extremely important. Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool.