How To Make A Parting Tool

Thin parting tool excel in parting off wood in tight space.

How to make a parting tool. Lower cost of ownership. Position the insert against the backstop return the key to the horizontal and remove. The result should be a surface that slopes toward the groove.

I show how to make a 18 parting tool for woodturning from a HSS tool blank purchased from Amazon. On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool. Parting is done with a special tool.

The same method is used to remove the worn insert when it. All you need is a lathe and an Easy Wood Tools turning tool and you can start making. Both a DPT FPT have better reach and control over the tool rest than thin parting tools.

With practice can turn beads with this tool. 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. When using a blade or an insert the cutting part will be held in a special toolholder.

When one side of the cutter gets dull just rotate it to a new surface. For reliability and durability select from a wide variety of tools including cut-off blades cut-off inserts indexable grooving blades and more. 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.

Locating the insert in the tool is a quick and easy operation. Slowly advance the cross-slide crank until the tool starts cutting into the metal. Make sure your tool is exactly perpendicular to the axis of rotation as well.