How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

I find a credit-card-sized hone to be hard to control on the narrow surface of a thin parting tool.

How to use a thin 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. Groove widths 2 3 4 5 and 6mm. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges.

I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. It wobbles a bit much and tends to round the cutting edge. As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge.

That is look across the top of the spindle where you can see the curve in profile. If I do I sharpen the tool and start the parting with the tool tip below center and the handle up. For a thin parting tool Im using the Chris Stott we seem to have had forever.

Inserts can also be used for parting and face grooving. Unless the cutting edge is in really bad shape you may not need anything more than a hone to do the job. I was working on a handle for a gouge blade.

The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. These parting tools are generally thin blades of HSS but there are also carbide insert parting tools available for the task or you can grind a cutoff tool out of HSS. Using My New Parting Tool.

Geometries including lead angles top rakes and custom forms can be provided. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.