How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

When using a scraper it is held at a downward angle - tool lower than the handle.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool. I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. There are many types shapes and thicknesses of parting tools but a flatsided 18- 3mm- wide by 34-high tool is the one I use.

Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well. It was about 14 wide and works well even if I have to sharpen it often. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal.

The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank. Use one hand to hold the parting tool. Segmented Goblet Video.

Step 4 Lay your lathe tools on the tool rest positioned at an angle. Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool. The other hand is ready to catch the turning as the wood separates and comes off of the lathe.

I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. 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. Restrict the parting tool to work where the grain runs parallel to the lathe axis.

Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible. I could use a wide beadingparting tool like the one he made. The cutting edge above the cylinder.