How To Make A Metal Lathe Parting Tool

I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

How to make a metal lathe parting tool. This new tool can then be mounted onto the back toolpost of my Taig lathe. Within 18 of the chuck jaws ispreferable. This Video Will Show the Viewer How to Select the Proper Cutting Tool for Lathe Operations - Basic Tutorial - SMITHY GRANITE 3-in-1Helpful Quote from Video T.

I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Ad China Metal Lathe. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish.

After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. Adding an angle to the tool longer at which side of the cut you need to save allows the cut off part to be held a little longer so you end up. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar. This can be done several ways.

To functionthe part-off tool must be perfectlyaligned with the X-axis on the lathe. Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon. This was on a 14 blank and it probably took me a good 15 to 20 minutes of grinding to get it right.

The idea is to cut one segment out of the saw disk with a carbide tooth on it and secure it onto a shank made from mild steel milled to 38 8 mm square one and half inches long. You have to remove more material to make a parting tool than most any of the other blade types. The chuck key that came with my 1936 South Bend Lathe was pretty worn out by the time I took ownership a few years ago.