How To Use A Wood Turning 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.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. It was about 14 wide and works well even if I have to sharpen it often. Use the left hand to guide the tool by holding your hand over the tool near the blade edge.

Rather than cutting a woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible.

There are many types shapes and thicknesses of parting tools but a flatsided 18- 3mm- wide by 34-high tool is the one I use. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. A versatile tool used not only for parting work off the lathe but also for making fillets and forming tenons for holding work in a scroll chuck.

This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. When using a scraper it is held at a downward angle - tool lower than the handle.

Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. Parting tools come with either flat or.

Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. 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. I was looking for a parting tool with a 116 to 18 blade and found a couple out there costing anywhere between 20 and 30 dollars.