How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

This is using the tool as a negative rake scraper.

How to use a thin parting tool. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. Use one hand to hold the parting tool. Using My New Parting Tool.

Parting or cutoff is the operation of cutting a piece off by slicing a groove all the way through it with a special parting tool or cut off tool. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. While the ultra-thin blade is only 116 wide approx the 1-14 blade height provides rigidity and stability when cutting.

The Crown Narrow Parting Tool is designed for use on boxes and other lidded containers as well as pens where you want to maintain grain alignment by removing as little material as possible. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. Works as well as the sorby ones and you get 2 from a blade that was going to be thrown away.

Possesses a fine 2mm cutting edge. For a thin parting tool Im using the Chris Stott we seem to have had forever. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool.

It wobbles a bit much and tends to round the cutting edge. I find a credit-card-sized hone to be hard to control on the narrow surface of a thin parting tool. A smaller version of the full size diamond parting tool the special profile of this tool reduces the risk of binding in the cut.

Groove widths 2 3 4 5 and 6mm. A hone is quite effective because of the small surface area involved. This thin parting tool was made from a cheap kitchen knife we were no longer usingHere are some oth.