How To Sharpen A Diamond Parting Tool

This flattens and dulls the cutting edges but you can use these flat edges as a guide to maintain the desired profile.

How to sharpen a diamond parting tool. Always be careful not to over-grind or over sharpen the tool. The un-skewed cutting edge of the parting tools actually makes them much easer to sharpen. He uses the Tormek SVD-110 Tool Rest and the DF-250 Diamond Wheel Fine.

The result should be a surface that slopes toward the groove. The same techniques used to sharpen a skew can be applied to these tools so let me refer you to the article on sharpening skews. In this episode Nick Agar shows how to sharpen a woodturning scraper creating a large burr and a small burr depending on the material youre working in.

Instead grind the profile first by feeding the nose of the tool into a sharpening machine. On a thin parting tool I only sharpen. The part about parting tools starts around 325.

How to sharpen a knife with a diamond stone. Then gently push the edge against the wheel. You might try practicing the movement several hundred times with the sander off to get the muscle memory started.

Stop as soon as the edge is square and you feel a burr. Sure its a great tool when parting-off deeply into the wood as the diamond shape helps to reduce friction. In general the method is to use either a grinder or belt sander and then.

Following the directions in the turning tool instruction guide I mounted the parting tool. The roughing and parting tools are less of a problem since they dont use compound movements to sharpen. If your tool has a removable handle remove it less awkward Grind one half then the other left right then blend rather than trying to swing the tool around all the way from one wing to the other.