How To Sharpen Carbide Tipped Lathe Tools

For a while now Ive wanted to have a way to sharpen my metal lathe cutting tools.

How to sharpen carbide tipped lathe tools. How to use a slow speed grinder to sharpen carbide tooling. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. The top surface of the tool is often ignored but its as important as the faces.

It takes practice to sharpen tools no matter what system you choose. My experience started with a high speed grinding wheel and over time I have moved to a moving belt system. As I noted in my Sharpening Handbook httpsharpeninghandbookinfo these are not easy to sharpen in a normal manner.

Touch the tip to the wheel but do not turn on the grinder yet. It is a sled which rides atop the SVD-110 Tool. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.

Hold your tungsten carbide tool against the rest beneath the wheel. They had several grinders for carbide tools some with face type wheels and one like an ordinary bench grinder with 7. Heat is the enemy of sharpening metal and carbide tipped tools slower speed and water bathed systems help in this regard.

It takes a special grinding wheel made of silicon carbide abrasive When I was an apprentice that is all the shop had and we used a lot of brazed on tools in the shop. In this video I explore different aspects a slow speed grinding. When grinding the turning tool should be placed in the horizontal center of the grinding wheel and the tip of the tool should be slightly upward for about 3 8 When the turning tool contacts the grinding wheel it should move horizontally in the left and right directions.

Shown below is what Ive put together to achieve the level of accuracy desired. In particular the angles must be precise for best cutting action. Waist with two elbows to reduce the shaking of the lathe tool sharpening.