How To Make A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool.

How to make a wood turning parting tool. This video -- the final installment n a series of videos showing the making of various kinds of woodturning tools -- features the making of a parting tool a. The trick to this is the parting tool. 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.

Next I needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. 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.

Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool.

The idea is to turn an old used sawzall blade into to tool make a handle of wood and used some epoxy and brass rod for rivets or whatever they are called in knive handles. Now available - a parting tool for epoxy resin acrylic woodresin hybrid or any other man-made material lathe projects. The negative rake grind on this carbide tipped parting tool is designed to slice through any of these materials.

BA DA Bing BA DA Boom. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look.

Cutting technique as well as different uses for the tool are covered. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. This video describes and demonstrates the proper use of the parting tool on a lathe.