How To Use A Lathe Parting Tool

Parting tools come with either flat or diamond-section blades shown below.

How to use a lathe parting tool. Part-off Tool Inspection. The idea is to turn an old used sawzall blade into to tool make a handle of wood and used some epoxy and brass rod for rivets or whatever they are called in knive handles. How to Select the Proper Cutting Tool for Lathe Operations - Basic Tutorial - SMITHY GRANITE 3-in-1 - YouTube.

A standard 18 -wide flat-blade parting tool fills the bill for most turners. Turn the outside of the bowl to your desired shape. Parting is one of the most misunderstood machining operations on the lathe.

I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. This cut is always at right angles to the axis of the lathe. Everything from 4140 to plastics have been parted without issues this way.

We recommend to use a sub-spindle if available. 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. Now start the lathe at a few hundred RPM.

Hollow the interior of the bowl and finish both sides of the bowl. Grab a parting tool to form tenons or grooves cut in to specific diameters for reference points or of course separate or part a turning into multiple pieces. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal.

Same thing applies to a facing tool Look at your parting tool and blade and take note of the shape and set up accordingly. The more rigid the machine the easier it is to part things off. Tips Techniques Parting or cutoff is the operation of cutting a piece off by slicing a groove all the way through it with a special parting tool or cut off tool.