How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Grab a parting tool to form tenons or grooves cut in to specific diameters for reference points or of course separate or part a turning into multiple pieces.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. This may still leave you with a small piece of wood to clean up at the head stock end and a slightly larger piece at the tail stock. Use one hand to hold the parting tool. Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades.

I really liked the chiselscraper that Mike did in his video. This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip.

I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. The cutting edge above the cylinder. But I needed a thin parting tool for my woodturning projects and something that I could hold in my hand.

The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. Generally holding the tool at about a 30º angle from the tool rest is effective. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool.

The idea is to turn an old used sawzall blade into to tool make a handle of wood and used some epoxy and brass rod for rivets or whatever they are called in knive handles. Use the left hand to guide the tool by holding your hand over the tool near the blade edge. Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible.