How To Make A Lathe Parting Tool

Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful.

How to make a lathe parting tool. The whole idea is to be able to cut a very thin but long cut into a usually but not necessarily round bar. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool.

All you need is a lathe and an Easy Wood Tools turning tool and you can start making. Starting On Parting Tool. I really enjoy making my own woodturning tools if for any reason just to see if I can do it.

Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. You dont need to buy a grinding kit or sharpening system or multiple tools to achieve your desired result. Then turn your blank round and figure out where you want the joint on your box to go.

I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. 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. Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades.

Lathe Parting Tool Cut Off Tool. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the Be careful to not drop the 1-2-3 block. Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar.

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. Ensure the parting tool is perpendicular to the face of the chuck you can use a 1-2-3 block whose surfaces are ground to be parallel to one another. When one side of the cutter gets dull just rotate it to a new surface.