How To Make A Wood Lathe Parting Tool

I was working on a handle for a gouge blade.

How to make a wood lathe parting tool. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges. After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. I really enjoy making my own woodturning tools if for any reason just to see if I can do it.

How to Make a Parting Tool From A Sawzall Blade. So the task of cutting a groove is very similar to parting off. Parting is one of the most misunderstood machining operations on the lathe.

Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. You turn your blank round between centers on the lathe. Handle tang - ½ diameter x 2½ length.

Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool. Gouges include options like a bowl gouge spindle gouge and grind bowl gouge. Clamping parting tool blade and wood handles with 5 minute eposy.

Handle blanks one is chiseled out to hold the sawzall blade and the other is chiseled out to hold some of the 5 minute epoxy. The parting tool is going to be used to separate the lid from the bottom of the box. Blade width -18 Cutter width - 532 nominal.

Next I needed to put a couple of rivets thru the wood and the blade. After watching a video from Mike Peace on Making and Using Beading and Parting Tools I ordered 4 HSS Square Cutting Tool Bits Bar 8mm x 8mm x 200mm that would be about 516 x 7 78I paid around 11 dollars for 4 of these you can find them here HSS Cutting Bits. Ive made a couple of turning tools with carbide cutters and some with HSS cutting blanks all turned out to be very useful.