How To Use A Parting Tool On A Lathe

Parting or cutoff is the operation of cutting a piece off by slicing a groove all the way through it with a special parting tool or cut off tool.

How to use a parting tool on a lathe. Keep advancing the tool until you get a steady chip curling off the workpiece and then try to maintain this cutting speed. Never assume the tool is setup properly just because it was in the lathe cabinet for the machine youre using. Use carriage lock to lock saddle to ways.

A parting tool properly set up will not leave a tit so make sure things are on center. Workpiece turn on the lathe. Slowly advance the cross-slide crank until the tool starts cutting into the metal.

These parting tools are generally thin blades of HSS but there are also carbide insert parting tools available for the task or you can grind a cutoff tool out of HSS. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. Ad At Surplex you will find used machinery and industry equipment at best prices.

Turn the outside of the bowl to your desired shape. I was working on a handle for a gouge blade. The only way this happens is when the lathe is fitted with an American style toolpost.

Tool should be perpendicular to the work piece. Same thing applies to a facing tool Look at your parting tool and blade and take note of the shape and set up accordingly. Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look.

The more rigid the machine the easier it is to part things off. A cutoff tool ground from HSS. Tool Blocks for Blade-Style Cutoff.