How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

When youre ready to part your work from your stock reach for our Easy Parting Tool.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. This video covers how to properly grind the tool how to set the tool so it is ri. After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. The parting tool is going to be used to separate the lid from the bottom of the box.

Simple Parting Tool technical details. Blade width -18 Cutter width - 532 nominal. Gouges include options like a bowl gouge spindle gouge and grind bowl gouge.

Its safer steadier and like all our Easy Wood Tools has a replaceable carbide cutter. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank. I really enjoy making my own woodturning tools if for any reason just to see if I can do it.

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool. The trick to this is the parting tool. With the lathe Off place the tool about 12 to the right of the groove and find the position where the cutting edge just begins to engage the wood with the bevel rubbing.

You have to remove more material to make a parting tool than most any of the other blade types. As my Lathe is a mini Lathe I there is not enough room to mount a drill on it so I used my drill press to drill a 38 hole 5 deep I could have used a parting tool to remove the end of the spindle but did want to take a chance of denting the brass or wood so I cut it on my bandsaw photo 3. These make long deep cuts but there are several different types of gouges as well.

Notice there is a lot of positive back rake on the tool as well as plenty of side relief. So I thought I would make my own parting tool for woodturning. Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful.