How To Use A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

This tool comes with a replaceable stainless steel cutter blade that contains a permanent mounted Negative Rake Carbide Cutter for smooth clean parting through all materials with no sharpening required.

How to use a wood lathe parting tool. It is normally used to remove the finished end of a workpiece from the bar stock that is clamped in the chuck. A basic wood lathe consists of a bed headstock tailstock and tool rest. Touch the tip of the tool to the workpiece at the 1030 position when viewed from the tailstock Photo J.

So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. 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.

Hold the wood lathe tools in your right hand firmly but not overly tight. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Part-off Tool Inspection.

Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. Inspect the parting tool closely before using. Used primarily for parting off pieces of wood.

Turn the grinder on and lower the tip of the parting tool onto the moving grinding wheel for a few seconds. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. If using an indexable part-off tool check that the cutting insert is in good condition.

This cut is always at right angles to the axis of the lathe. Stand the tool on edge on the tool rest with its blade at a 90 angle to the workpiece. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.