How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Parting tools come with either flat or.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. This may still leave you with a small piece of wood to clean up at the head stock end and a slightly larger piece at the tail stock. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool.

I really liked the chiselscraper that Mike did in his video. A versatile tool used not only for parting work off the lathe but also for making fillets and forming tenons for holding work in a scroll chuck. There are many types shapes and thicknesses of parting tools but a flatsided 18- 3mm- wide by 34-high tool is the one I use.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. It was about 14 wide and works well even if I have to sharpen it often. 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.

The cutting edge above the cylinder. 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. Segmented Goblet Video.

The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. 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. Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool.

Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. But I needed a thin parting tool for my woodturning projects and something that I could hold in my hand. I could use a wide beadingparting tool like the one he made.