How To Make A Parting Tool

Another important step is to make sure the cutting tip of your parting tool is right on the center line of the piece you are parting.

How to make a parting tool. Never sharpen your tools again. Browse through MSCs parting tool categories today. The tool path really needs to make the first plunge at the back of the part until the TNR is tangent to the back edge of the chamfer then cut the chamfer.

Thin parting tool excel in parting off wood in tight space. For reliability and durability select from a wide variety of tools including cut-off blades cut-off inserts indexable grooving blades and more. The trick to this is the parting tool.

All you need is a lathe and an Easy Wood Tools turning tool and you can start making. When using a blade or an insert the cutting part will be held in a special toolholder. You dont need to buy a grinding kit or sharpening system or multiple tools to achieve your desired result.

To 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. Quick look at how to sharpen a wood turners parting tool. Swing the handle to the right and rotate it to the left as before to initiate the cut.

The result should be a surface that slopes toward the groove. Locating the insert in the tool is a quick and easy operation. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the toolholder flush with the 1-2-3 block and re-tighten the tool post.

The parting tool is going to be used to separate the lid from the bottom of the box. Keep advancing the tool until you get a steady chip curling off the workpiece and then try to maintain this cutting speed. I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon.