How To Use A Parting Tool On A Wood Lathe

Lay your lathe tools on the tool rest positioned at an angle.

How to use a parting tool on a wood lathe. Rather than cutting a woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal. These parting tools are generally thin blades of HSS but there are also carbide insert parting tools available for the task or you can grind a cutoff tool out of HSS.

Parting tools are another common piece and they are typically used for finishing purposes. It is an extra position to hold a tool that is commonly used. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool.

On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look.

Used primarily for parting off pieces of wood. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup. 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.

Generally holding the tool at about a 30º angle from the tool rest is effective. That is look across the top of the spindle where you can see the curve in profile. There are two ways of doing this.

Then use the BP tool to round the sides of the center ring to form a bead. Firmly support the tool with both hands. Turn the outside of the bowl to your desired shape.