How To Make A Parting Tool

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How to make a parting tool. Another important step is to make sure the cutting tip of your parting tool is right on the center line of the piece you are parting. Parting is done with a special tool. The tool path really needs to make the first plunge at the back of the part until the TNR is tangent to the back edge of the chamfer then cut the chamfer.

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 show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon. Place the tool about 14 to the right of the groove.

MSC offers a full line of parting tools for almost any application. With the tip of the tool just beyond the surface of the workpiece turn on the lathe. There are three main varieties those using a blade of HSS.

Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. When using a blade or an insert the cutting part will be held in a special toolholder. Browse through MSCs parting tool categories today.

Make you own thin parting tool Stott using a edger blade and parts from a hardware for under 600. For reliability and durability select from a wide variety of tools including cut-off blades cut-off inserts indexable grooving blades and more. Using a piece of HSS ground the the required shape and those using carbide inserts.

Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well. Then advance the cut toward the groove by pivoting the tool on the tool rest. The blank is already heat treated so no special metallurg.