How To Use A Wood Turning Parting Tool

Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool.

How to use a wood turning parting tool. This burr must be kept sharp to be effective. I got it looking nice and shiney looked pretty good. 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.

Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. Segmented Goblet Video. Use one hand to hold the parting tool.

Turn a Wood Handle and You Have A New Parting Tool. Grab a parting tool to form tenons or grooves cut in to specific diameters for reference points or of course separate or part a turning into multiple pieces. Next I took the blade over to the disk sander and ground it down to bare metal.

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. 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. 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.

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. I shaped the end of the blade like the Sorby Parting Tool double angle look. The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank.

Turn a tool handle epoxy the handle and metal bar together and youve got yourself a new tool. I really liked the chiselscraper that Mike did in his video. I then cut the end of the blade off to square it off and I cut and ground down the teeth.