How To Sharpen A Lathe Cut Off Tool

If you do this you may cut yourself.

How to sharpen a lathe cut off tool. Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible. This insures a consistent angle much better than repetitive hand grinding cooling the tool in water hand grinding again and so on. How to Sharpen HSS Cut Off Blade for a Lathe.

Above or below center. Inspect the parting tool closely before using. Simply turn the wheel on and draw the tool across the surface of the stone.

Unless you are parting off SMALL diameters and wish to reduce or eliminate the center Pip the nose of the tool should be ground. Video on how to properly sharpen. The grinding rest was tipped to give the required side clearance relief and the fence adjusted to give the side cutting edge angle.

Part-off Tool Inspection. The end result should be the point of the parting tool be ground to a sharp squared of point. Begin by dressing the grinding wheel.

Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well. This is easy to do using a diamond sharpening tool. Shaping skew chisels are pretty easy to do as well.

There are different ways to check the sharpness of tools. If you get better results by not doing soyou are doing something WRONG and need to re-examine the geometry of your tool bit. If using an indexable part-off tool check that the cutting insert is in good condition.