How To Use A Thin Parting Tool

A hone is quite effective because of the small surface area involved.

How to use a thin parting tool. The Crown Narrow Parting Tool is designed for use on boxes and other lidded containers as well as pens where you want to maintain grain alignment by removing as little material as possible. I find a credit-card-sized hone to be hard to control on the narrow surface of a thin parting tool. This is using the tool as a negative rake scraper.

Geometries including lead angles top rakes and custom forms can be provided. I rarely need a finish cut from a parting tool. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal.

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. The double-bevel HSS cutting face imparts fine parting lines to turnings. Inserts can also be used for parting and face grooving.

Double Angle Sorby Thin Parting Tool I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. Use one hand to hold the parting tool. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges.

On a practice spindle use a parting tool to cut two grooves near its center about 38 apart and 516 deep. 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. I demonstrate the use of a thin parting too or tenoning tool including sharpeningI upload a new wood turning tip every Tuesday and a wood turning tutorial v.

It also reduces the amount of heat build-up caused by friction thereby lessening the chance of burning the bottom of the parted-off project. 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. If I do I sharpen the tool and start the parting with the tool tip below center and the handle up.