How To Use Carbide Woodturning Tools

This value is the exact height of the carbide woodturning tips that we should adjust.

How to use carbide woodturning tools. Carbide turning tools can be used for both spindle and bowl turning. They are designed to effortlessly remove massive amounts of material on any woodturning project without the need for sharpening. If the tool is installed upward the blade tip should be higher than the center point workpiece by this distance.

What makes them different. Move the tool from side to side keeping it level and remove all the edges until the blank is round. I made the tool using 58 x 58 square bar and it allows me to extend it quite far beyond the tool rest also absorbs a lot of shock.

The carbide insert tool should be at center and parallel to the ground With a firm grip on the tool place it on the toolrest and advance it until it contacts the wood. Since these are more of a scraping tool than a shearing one you will have more sanding to do. The tools are designed with support directly beneath the cutting edge transferring the cutting pressure downward.

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. How to make wood turning tools with carbide cutters. Divide the minimum diameter of the workpiece by 7 and we will get a value of adjustment distance.

To begin with if your were searching for wood turning tools with carbide tips you might have a hard time finding them because these special tools are made with carbide inserts. In use you angle the tool so the bevel rides the wood then tilt the handle up to begin the cut. If the tool is installed facing down the tip should be lower than the center point by this distance.

I made these for my sons Christmas present. Conventional HSS tools like the spindle roughing gouge shown above have the cutting edge ground like a chisel. This steep impactful angle scrapes and tears out wood fibers violently even with a sharp edge.