How To Sharpen Carbide Tipped Lathe Tools

Building your own carbide tipped lathe tools will bring much satisfaction fast and clean cuttingnot to worry about sharpening because you can just get a new carbide insert for 5 to 10 bucks.

How to sharpen carbide tipped lathe tools. My experience started with a high speed grinding wheel and over time I have moved to a moving belt system. They had several grinders for carbide tools some with face type wheels and one like an ordinary bench grinder with 7. Heat is the enemy of sharpening metal and carbide tipped tools slower speed and water bathed systems help in this regard.

Adjust the rest as needed so that you achieve the necessary grinding angle for your particular tool. Assuming youre talking about brazed carbide tools the best way is with a high speed wet diamond wheel mounted on a machine with a table that tilts to establish front and side relief. In particular the angles must be precise for best cutting action.

Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. I started at a time when there were no carbide tipped tools. Hold your tungsten carbide tool against the rest beneath the wheel.

Waist with two elbows to reduce the shaking of the lathe tool sharpening. During sharpening lathe tool please place the lathe tool on the horizontal center of the grinding wheel and the tip of the lathe tool is slightly upward about 3-8 when the lathe tool touches the grinding wheel that the lathe tool should be moved around horizontally. Shown below is what Ive put together to achieve the level of accuracy desired.

Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. Be sure to have some lapping fluid on hand to use as a lubricant. They require a dimond stone because its the only material hard enough to properly sharpen carbide.

How to use a slow speed grinder to sharpen carbide tooling. It takes a special grinding wheel made of silicon carbide abrasive When I was an apprentice that is all the shop had and we used a lot of brazed on tools in the shop. Carbide tools can be sharpened on an ordinary bench grinder but it does not do the best job in terms of finish.