How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. Segmented Goblet Video. 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. Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades.

Use one hand to hold the parting tool. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth. A versatile tool used not only for parting work off the lathe but also for making fillets and forming tenons for holding work in a scroll chuck.

Sharpening Your Wood Tuners Parting Tool. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool. Parting tools come with either flat or.

Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. 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.

Another thought on parting is to try to do your parting as close to the chuck jaws as possible. But I needed a thin parting tool for my woodturning projects and something that I could hold in my hand. 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.

When using a scraper it is held at a downward angle - tool lower than the handle. I could use a wide beadingparting tool like the one he made. I really liked the chiselscraper that Mike did in his video.