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. There are many types shapes and thicknesses of parting tools but a flatsided 18- 3mm- wide by 34-high tool is the one I. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. 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. A 8 Aluminum Handle - 10999 USD.

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool. Cutting technique as well as different uses for the tool are covered. The radius shown gives you a tool that can take shallow turning cuts moving from tailstock to spindle Turning with a parting blade makes it easy to get nice square shoulders if you need your smallest OD between two larger ODs.

Our 2nd generation Easy Parting Tool cuts clean provides precise and stable control with a flexible approach for side cutting and undercutting techniques. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool.

If you thought your other Simple Woodturning Tools cut good wait till you try this one. BA DA Bing BA DA Boom. Put the radius on the side youll be moving into the cut.

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. The negative rake grind on this carbide tipped parting tool is designed to slice through any of these materials. The blank is already heat treated so no special metallurg.