How To Make Your Own Carbide Turning Tools

Home made DIY Wood Turning Tools are relatively easy to make.

How to make your own carbide turning tools. Hey people this is a video of my home-made carbide woodturning toolIm extremely happy with the build but given half the chance Id buy some professionally. In the video below he shows you some of his favorite tools and how he made them from either old broken or leftover tools that are made. Al takes a common sense approach to making woodturning tools that will save you a ton of money.

This method will work for a range of different sizes. You ONLY NEED 3 TOOLS and a 10 pry bar to make your own CARBIDE WOODTURNING TOOLS for the lathe. Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool.

If youre using the round bar use a jacobs chuck in your tailstock and drill a 127mm 12 hole as far as you can into the handle - my drill bit managed to go 110mm. I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. To make most tools you need to be able to turn a handle drill a hole cut a piece of steel tap the hole in the steel and put it all together.

I currently have the Easy Wood Tools Mid Size tools bu. First the insert is laid out on the 12 square steel A protractor and a metal scribe to make marks. Since tapping is no harder than driving a screw you have probably done all this.

Drill a small hole in the center of the cap so the live center can secure the spindle in place. The flute does not have to be full length 15-20 mm long will function perfectly well. You can use this method with high speed steel or hardened carbon steel.

We just have to put it all together and make a tool. Theyre fantastic for harder more abrasive timbers and mixed materials that would normally require a lot of sharpening and because theyre scrape. Making a Carbide Hook Tool for Wood Turning - YouTube.