How To Sharpen A Parting Tool

1 Its difficult to sharpen the bevels of a parting tool and arrive at the correct side profile with the ears leading the nose.

How to sharpen a parting tool. I wanted a parting tool with a 18 blade. On a thin parting tool I only sharpen. But that same shape makes sharpening difficult.

Make sure your bench grinder is fastened securely to the floor with no wobble or give. If youve used the bench grinder recently youll want to dress it removing the old bits of debris caught in the stone. Chase the wire edge to achieve sharpness then polish and strop.

On a diamond parting tool I alternate sides to even the wear. A sharpening jig sy. I never use a grinder to sharpen any of my edged tools rather a 6 X 48 belt sander with various grit belts from 100 to 320.

This flattens and dulls the cutting edges but you can use these flat edges as a guide to maintain the desired profile. Learn how to sharpen a parting tool on your bench grinderShop sharpening supplies. Ensure the parting tool is perpendicular to the face of the chuck you can use a 1-2-3 block whose surfaces are ground to be parallel to one another.

S harpening this tool can be a real pain. 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. You can easily sharpen a parting tool on a diamond card or paddle.

Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. 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. To effectively sharpen this tool you need to get the sharp side points to.