How To Make A Lathe Parting Tool

The whole idea is to be able to cut a very thin but long cut into a usually but not necessarily round bar.

How to make a lathe parting tool. Lathe Parting Tool Cut Off Tool. You dont need to buy a grinding kit or sharpening system or multiple tools to achieve your desired result. You turn your blank round between centers on the lathe.

These parting tools are generally thin blades of HSS but there are also carbide insert parting tools available for the task or you can grind a cutoff tool out of HSS. How to Make a Parting Tool From A Sawzall Blade. Parting can be seen as simply cutting a groove in a workpiece that is so deep that it cuts the workpiece off the bar.

Make Your Own Beading and Parting Tool from 8mm HSS tool blank. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.

Adding an angle to the tool longer at which side of the cut you need to save allows the cut off part to be held a little longer so you end up. Ill start at that speed and around 12 way thru Ill re-sharpen the tool and drop the speed down maybe 30 with the VFD. Then turn your blank round and figure out where you want the joint on your box to go.

After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. The trick to this is the parting tool.

Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful.