How To Make A Parting Tool

All you need is a lathe and an Easy Wood Tools turning tool and you can start making.

How to make a parting tool. I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon. Position the insert against the backstop return the key to the horizontal and remove. A 14 parting tool with flat sides and bottom does not nick up the tool rest as much as a DPT can bind in the cut until you learn how to use it.

You dont need to buy a grinding kit or sharpening system or multiple tools to achieve your desired result. Then advance the cut toward the groove by pivoting the tool on the tool rest. When using a blade or an insert the cutting part will be held in a special toolholder.

Both a DPT FPT have better reach and control over the tool rest than thin parting tools. Swing the handle to the right and rotate it to the left as before to initiate the cut. Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well.

Locating the insert in the tool is a quick and easy operation. There are three main varieties those using a blade of HSS. Slowly advance the cross-slide crank until the tool starts cutting into the metal.

Quick look at how to sharpen a wood turners parting tool. 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. With practice can turn beads with this tool.

Make you own thin parting tool Stott using a edger blade and parts from a hardware for under 600. Thin parting tool excel in parting off wood in tight space. To 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.