How To Use A Parting Tool On A Wood Lathe

The bowl gouge is a must if you plan to get into bowl turning for your wood lathe projects.

How to use a parting tool on a wood lathe. Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool. The cutting edge above the cylinder. Stand the tool on edge on the tool rest with its blade at a 90 angle to the workpiece.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. They truly are designed for parting so in the end you will use the parting tool to separate your finely tuned piece from any type of remaining. Used primarily for parting off pieces of wood.

Parting tools are another common piece and they are typically used for finishing purposes. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. Generally holding the tool at about a 30º angle from the tool rest is effective.

These parting tools are generally thin blades of HSS but there are also carbide insert parting tools available for the task or you can grind a cutoff tool out of HSS. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the toolholder flush with the 1-2-3 block and re-tighten the tool post. 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.

Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. I was working on a handle for a gouge blade. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

Then use the BP tool to round the sides of the center ring to form a bead. I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. Using My New Parting Tool.