How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. 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.

This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. Parting tools come with either flat or.

I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. But I needed a thin parting tool for my woodturning projects and something that I could hold in my hand.

Another important step is to make sure the cutting tip of your parting tool is right on the center line of the piece you are parting. Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well. The cutting edge above the cylinder.

Use one hand to hold the parting tool. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. 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.

Step 4 Lay your lathe tools on the tool rest positioned at an angle. Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible. A versatile tool used not only for parting work off the lathe but also for making fillets and forming tenons for holding work in a scroll chuck.