How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

I could use a wide beadingparting tool like the one he made.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank. The cutting edge above the cylinder. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool.

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. 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. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip.

When using a scraper it is held at a downward angle - tool lower than the handle. But I needed a thin parting tool for my woodturning projects and something that I could hold in my hand. 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.

Grab a parting tool to form tenons or grooves cut in to specific diameters for reference points or of course separate or part a turning into multiple pieces. 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. Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool.

Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe.

I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool. 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.