How To Sharpen A Parting Tool

You can easily sharpen a parting tool on a diamond card or paddle.

How to sharpen a parting tool. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the Be careful to not drop the 1-2-3 block. This is easy to do using a diamond sharpening tool. In general the method is to use either a grinder or belt sander and then.

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. Starting On Parting Tool Project. 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.

If youve used the bench grinder recently youll want to dress it removing the old bits of debris caught in the stone. The un-skewed cutting edge of the parting tools actually makes them much easer to sharpen. On a thin parting tool I only sharpen.

This includes the rectangular and diamond parting tools as well as the much wider beadingparting tool. S harpening this tool can be a real pain. But that same shape makes sharpening difficult.

I wanted a parting tool with a 18 blade. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new. On a diamond parting tool I alternate sides to even the wear.

BA DA Bing BA DA Boom. Shape it a little on the disk sander and fine tune the cutting tip. I lightly rub the bevel on the tool against the card or paddle until I can see that the surface of the bevel has been refreshed.