How To Make A Lathe Parting Tool

All you need is a lathe and an Easy Wood Tools turning tool and you can start making.

How to make a lathe parting tool. You turn your blank round between centers on the lathe. Lower cost of ownership. BA DA Bing BA DA Boom.

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. Ill start at that speed and around 12 way thru Ill re-sharpen the tool and drop the speed down maybe 30 with the VFD. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.

Starting On Parting Tool. When one side of the cutter gets dull just rotate it to a new surface. Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful.

So I thought I would make my own parting tool for woodturning. I really enjoy making my own woodturning tools if for any reason just to see if I can do it. Ensure the parting tool is perpendicular to the face of the chuck you can use a 1-2-3 block whose surfaces are ground to be parallel to one another.

How to Make a Parting Tool From A Sawzall Blade. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank.

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your 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. The whole idea is to be able to cut a very thin but long cut into a usually but not necessarily round bar.