How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

Blade width -18 Cutter width - 532 nominal.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. Next I needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. Gouges include options like a bowl gouge spindle gouge and grind bowl gouge. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank.

On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool. You want to chisel out the handle a little deeper than the blade thickness to allow for some epoxy to get between the blade and the wood handle on both sides. This was on a 14 blank and it probably took me a good 15 to 20 minutes of grinding to get it right.

I was working on a handle for a gouge blade. Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar. How to Make a Parting Tool From A Sawzall Blade.

Simple Parting Tool technical details. I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. Clamping parting tool blade and wood handles with 5 minute eposy.

As my Lathe is a mini Lathe I there is not enough room to mount a drill on it so I used my drill press to drill a 38 hole 5 deep I could have used a parting tool to remove the end of the spindle but did want to take a chance of denting the brass or wood so I cut it on my bandsaw photo 3. So I thought I would make my own parting tool for woodturning. Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank.

Handle tang - ½ diameter x 2½ length. 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. Parting tools of almost any sort seldom give the best possible finish.