How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

It wobbles a bit much and tends to round the cutting edge.

How to use a thin parting tool. Inserts can also be used for parting and face grooving. On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. Using My New Parting Tool.

Use one hand to hold the parting tool. The double-bevel HSS cutting face imparts fine parting lines to turnings. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges.

Groove widths 2 3 4 5 and 6mm. I rarely need a finish cut from a 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.

As you do this practice looking at the horizon rather than directly at the cutting edge. This thin parting tool was made from a cheap kitchen knife we were no longer usingHere are some oth. I also made my own from a used commercial hacksaw blade by grinding the teeth off the blade which removes the set and then grinding it to parting tool profile and attaching a handle.

I find a credit-card-sized hone to be hard to control on the narrow surface of a thin parting tool. Possesses a fine 2mm cutting edge. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.

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. Recessed pocket and raised edge for chip control. Then use the BP tool to round the sides of the center ring to form a bead.