How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. Clamping parting tool blade and wood handles with 5 minute eposy. The parting tool is going to be used to separate the lid from the bottom of the box. Then turn your blank round and figure out where you want the joint on your box to go.

When youre ready to part your work from your stock reach for our Easy Parting Tool. You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store. Parting is one of the most misunderstood machining operations on the lathe.

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool. Next I needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish.

Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. You turn your blank round between centers on the lathe. Its safer steadier and like all our Easy Wood Tools has a replaceable carbide cutter.

With the lathe Off place the tool about 12 to the right of the groove and find the position where the cutting edge just begins to engage the wood with the bevel rubbing. Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar. You want to chisel out the handle a little deeper than the blade thickness to allow for some epoxy to get between the blade and the wood handle on both sides.

Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool. As my Lathe is a mini Lathe I there is not enough room to mount a drill on it so I used my drill press to drill a 38 hole 5 deep I could have used a parting tool to remove the end of the spindle but did want to take a chance of denting the brass or wood so I cut it on my bandsaw photo 3. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool.