Making Your Own Lathe Tools

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Making your own lathe tools. Turning your own metal scribing tool is a great first project to turn on a metal lathe. Sometimes the tip is an integral part of the shaft sometimes it is added on. Make your own carbide lathe tools step 1. How to make your own carbide tipped lathe tools.

Al takes a common sense approach to making woodturning tools that will save you a ton of money. To make most tools you need to be able to turn a handle drill a hole cut a piece of steel tap the hole in the steel and put it all together. Building your own power tools is a specialized skill but with the right planning and patience you can diy everything in your workshop. In the video below he shows you some of his favorite tools and how he made them from either old broken or leftover tools that are made with hadened steel and all you need.

Woodturning bowl gouge from an old 1 2 drill bit make your own bowl gouge from steel cold chisel profiles of custom made woodturning bowl gouges al makes his own hollowing tool with home depot steel and carbide insert cutter. Usually a piece of 1 2 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular. Metal i used 4140 12 7mm round and stainless steel 12mm square. Step drill and standard drill bits.

It wasn t always that way of course. And a scriber becomes a go to tool in any machine shop and for many other types of making as well. They have a handle a shaft and a cutting or scraping tip. 8 32 drill and tap set.

Until very recently woodturners made most if not all of their tools heating hammering and grinding a piece of carbon steel until it took on the shape and cutting edge they wanted. I made my handle blanks roughly 42mm x 42mm 1 65. Preparing the metal bar. And a scriber becomes a go to tool in any machine shop and for many other types of making as well.

If you re using a standard size cutter it should. Build a wood lathe from scratch and start turning.