Diy woodturning tools

So, I thought I would share some of my journey in these pages. The one thing I quickly found out was that my turning tools were really bad. I hand sharpened them till I totally screwed them up. Then the first investment was a Oneway Wolverine Sharpening System. I learned to sharpen my turning tools properly starting at that point. Next, once I figured my tools really were junk and I needed something better.

I stumbled on some DIY woodturning tool makers. In these pages I hope to bring some of these methods to you. I finally did learn that I could regrind the cheap tools that I had into a more useful grind or simply something that actually worked.

You can find them online but you should make sure they are for cutting wood. The square cutters are fairly cheap and you can even get a 4 sided radius carbide cutters, they are a little less likely to grab, but grab they do!

I watched a guy called Travis on youtube make a set of carbide tipped woodturning tools and just copied him. They are pretty rough but they really work well. That was fun, I learned a bunch and use the tool all the time. It ended up burning the wood more than cutting, I tried different angles …. Turns out there are a whole bunch of different types of steel.

And then you have the hardening process, have to heat it in a special oven, air cool it or oil cool it, heat it again to get a temper …. Do you happen to have a link for the 6mm x mm M2 HSS round blanks you used for your micro point and skew chisel tools.

Could you email me a link if you have one? I just subscribed to your YouTube channel. Very informative and well made videos.

Thanks for your time and effort. Have a great day! Thanks for the comment. I ordered it from Amazon. Be sure to look at the list of sellers, because there are two different prices. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content Social Media. Why this isn't a bad idea Files are high quality high carbon steel. Harder generaly means more brittle and when you make gouges you whould remove a lot of material …..

Try bending a file …. Put a edge on there. Drop it in water if the thing gets too hot so that it doesn't get soft on you.

This takes with a good grining and cut off wheel with a good angle grinder about a hour. Driving to a shop takes longer, shopping online takes maybe not as long I think making form tools and scrapers frome files makes a lot of sense.

You would take a square file grind the teeth of, cut the point of and then a v grove in one side. Almost a gouge right I would cut a v grove first anyway …. Then make the outside round with a angle grinder or a bench grinder Pretty simpe I would say this all takes a day maybe I would suspct that the blankes that you can buy are a much much better steel, because they are made to make metal turning form tools with them.

You don't have to be as sensitive about the steel not getting hot when grinding it, because its High Speet Steel and its made to withstand tempertures and not get influenced I have 3 HSS tools and I had another one Now the drama, I had a cut off tool I used all the time, but one I was a fool and it caugth the side and it shattered.