How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

I really enjoy making my own woodturning tools if for any reason just to see if I can do it.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful. So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off. Remember this position because its where you start when you roll a convex surface.

Its safer steadier and like all our Easy Wood Tools has a replaceable carbide cutter. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish. Parting is one of the most misunderstood machining operations on the lathe.

Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank. This video covers how to properly grind the tool how to set the tool so it is ri. Our 2nd generation Easy Parting Tool cuts clean provides precise and stable control with a flexible approach for side cutting and undercutting techniques.

Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. Using My New Parting Tool. You want to chisel out the handle a little deeper than the blade thickness to allow for some epoxy to get between the blade and the wood handle on both sides.

Blade width -18 Cutter width - 532 nominal. Handle tang - ½ diameter x 2½ length. Clamping parting tool blade and wood handles with 5 minute eposy.

After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. As my Lathe is a mini Lathe I there is not enough room to mount a drill on it so I used my drill press to drill a 38 hole 5 deep I could have used a parting tool to remove the end of the spindle but did want to take a chance of denting the brass or wood so I cut it on my bandsaw photo 3. You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store.