How To Use A Parting Tool On A Wood Lathe
Parting use of rear tool post.
How to use a parting tool on a wood lathe. There are two ways of doing this. Stand the tool on edge on the tool rest with its blade at a 90 angle to the workpiece. Rather than cutting a woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr.
Turn the outside of the bowl to your desired shape. Using My New Parting Tool. Firmly support the tool with both hands.
The cutting edge above the cylinder. The tool can be upside-down and the workpiece rotates in the usual direction. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.
As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.
The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank. Using My New Parting Tool. Parting or cutoff is the operation of cutting a piece off by slicing a groove all the way through it with a special parting tool or cut off tool.
Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the toolholder flush with the 1-2-3 block and re-tighten the tool post. Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool.
