How To Use Carbide Turning Tools

Place the tool on the tool rest with the tool shaft parallel with the floor.

How to use carbide turning tools. Exchangeable Head End Mills. Here is how I use carbide tools for turning pens. Bowl blank material can be removed quickly with a carbide turning tool and catches are less frequent than HSS tools.

Move the tool from side to side keeping it level and remove all the edges until the blank is round. These refer to the Turning Tool ISO code system that provides a relatively simple way to identify carbide inserts. You can move them backwards and forwards along the top of the tool-rest as you make your cut.

With carbide tools right you keep the tool. Conventional HSS tools like the spindle roughing gouge shown above have the cutting edge ground like a chisel. Improper use of tools and application of inappropriate cutting conditions may cause the tool to break and be expelled from the machine providing risk of injury.

Indexable tools and inserts come in. Once youve got it lined up the way that you want it use the inside of the carbide insert as a guide and scratch a circle into the steel tool shaft. Theyre pretty forgiving in the way that you use them too.

The benefits of using replaceable inserts for turning tools include. Usually a piece of 12 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular carbide cutter that is screwed onto the steel shaft and the far side of the shaft has a long wood handle. Repeat with the second blank.

Anatomy of a turning tool Most turning is done using a replaceable insert that is gripped in a turning tool body which is then mounted on the lathe turret. If one side of a carbide cutting tip wears out depending on the cutter shape the tip can be rotated to a new fresh sharp area. To begin with if your were searching for wood turning tools with carbide tips you might have a hard time finding them because these special tools are made with carbide inserts.