How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

I also made my own from a used commercial hacksaw blade by grinding the teeth off the blade which removes the set and then grinding it to parting tool profile and attaching a handle.

How to use a thin parting tool. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Ive made a few tools from scraps and on hand materials. Possesses a fine 2mm cutting edge.

It also reduces the amount of heat build-up caused by friction thereby lessening the chance of burning the bottom of the parted-off project. It wobbles a bit much and tends to round the cutting edge. Then use the BP tool to round the sides of the center ring to form a bead.

While the ultra-thin blade is only 116 wide approx the 1-14 blade height provides rigidity and stability when cutting. Using My New Parting Tool. 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.

This thin parting tool was made from a cheap kitchen knife we were no longer usingHere are some oth. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. Unless the cutting edge is in really bad shape you may not need anything more than a hone to do the job. As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge.

I demonstrate the use of a thin parting too or tenoning tool including sharpeningI upload a new wood turning tip every Tuesday and a wood turning tutorial v. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Works as well as the sorby ones and you get 2 from a blade that was going to be thrown away.