How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Step 4 Lay your lathe tools on the tool rest positioned at an angle.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. This may still leave you with a small piece of wood to clean up at the head stock end and a slightly larger piece at the tail stock. This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well.

Another important step is to make sure the cutting tip of your parting tool is right on the center line of the piece you are parting. Grab a parting tool to form tenons or grooves cut in to specific diameters for reference points or of course separate or part a turning into multiple pieces. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

Use the left hand to guide the tool by holding your hand over the tool near the blade edge. Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. Use one hand to hold the parting tool.

I really liked the chiselscraper that Mike did in his video. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible.

Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. I was looking for a parting tool with a 116 to 18 blade and found a couple out there costing anywhere between 20 and 30 dollars. Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool.

There are many types shapes and thicknesses of parting tools but a flatsided 18- 3mm- wide by 34-high tool is the one I use. Parting tools come with either flat or. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal.