How To Use A Parting Tool

I could use a wide beadingparting tool like the one he made.

How to use a parting tool. When machining with long overhangs it is especially important to mount the bar correctly to ensure enough clamping contact. Parting uses a blade-like cutting tool plunged directly into the workpiece to cut off the workpiece at a specific length. The ridge that runs the length of the sides of the tool makes the tool tippy as its positioned with this ridge directly on the toolrest.

It is normally used to remove the finished end of a workpiece from the bar stock that is clamped in the chuck. For an optimal parting tool set-up use a tool holder with a short overhang to avoid vibration. Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool.

With any parting tool start by placing the tool rest parallel to the workpiece and slightly below its centerline. Video on how to properly sharpen and use HSS parting blades. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe.

As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge. Maximize Cutting Tool Stiffness. A cutoff tool ground from HSS.

I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon. That is look across the top of the spindle where you can see the curve in profile. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep.

A quick demo on how I sharpen my parting beading tools and the bedan using a very simple shopmade jig setup which can easily be made from scrap - without. 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. The blank is already heat treated so no special metallurg.