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. 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 needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. 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.

BA DA Bing BA DA Boom. Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. The narrow razor sharp carbide tip slices through even the hardest wood.

The radius shown gives you a tool that can take shallow turning cuts moving from tailstock to spindle Turning with a parting blade makes it easy to get nice square shoulders if you need your smallest OD between two larger ODs. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

This video describes and demonstrates the proper use of the parting tool on a lathe. 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. Now available - a parting tool for epoxy resin acrylic woodresin hybrid or any other man-made material lathe projects.

Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. Put the radius on the side youll be moving into the cut.

The blank is already heat treated so no special metallurg. 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. Setting sawzall blade into the 5 minute epoxy.