How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

While the ultra-thin blade is only 116 wide approx the 1-14 blade height provides rigidity and stability when cutting.

How to use a thin parting tool. The Robert Sorby Narrow Parting Tool is designed to produce a clean cut with minimal waste this narrow parting tool features a double bevel cutting tip for fast clean cuts and 1-14 blade to eliminate flex and twist thats inherent to narrow blades. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. This thin parting tool was made from a cheap kitchen knife we were no longer usingHere are some oth.

Designed to give the cleanest cuts with a minimum of waste this Thin Kerf Parting Tool features a 1-14 blade width that eliminates the flexing and twisting associated with thin blades. I rarely need a finish cut from a parting tool. That is look across the top of the spindle where you can see the curve in profile.

Toolholder shank sizes 34 1 16mm 20mm and 25mm in straight and 90 orientations. Geometries including lead angles top rakes and custom forms can be provided. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look.

Possesses a fine 2mm cutting edge. 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. Works as well as the sorby ones and you get 2 from a blade that was going to be thrown away.

Groove widths 2 3 4 5 and 6mm. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. The double-bevel HSS cutting face imparts fine parting lines to turnings.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Then use the BP tool to round the sides of the center ring to form a bead. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look.