Making a Carbide Woodturning Tool: The Basic Steps
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2015
- Making your own wood turning tools is a great way to gain skill, comfort, have fun, and even better -- save money. This video shows the basic steps involved in creating a carbide wood turning tool. These steps could be applied to varying tool sizes. Please be safe and enjoy the show!
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Awesome job. I’ve been watching a lot of different fellas making tools as well. You are doing exactly what I thought of doing for each of the steps in making my own. Thanks for the video.
Well done; out of all the videos I've watch regarding making my own carbide turning tool I think yours will prove to be the most useful one. Thanks for making and posting this.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you found it useful. I find making your own tools, is the best and they are fun to make. I've made others in different lengths since this video and they all work great. Cheers!
Great video, my man! I am inspired now to add many new turning tools to my collection. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you sir! I’m so glad you are inspired. That mean s a lot to me since my whole purpose of my videos is to give inspiration. I have a newer video you may like were the sound is not messed up. Cheers!
ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html
Outstanding presentation without stuttering stammering or fumble lipping. Your approach to Machining the steel was quite useful thanks for sharing
Lee Fox thank you and thanks for watching.
Wow! Nice job using a patient calm voice to walk us through the tool construction. Thank you!
Thank you sir.
Just received a carbide insert and I'll be making a tool. This was helpful. Thanks!
Stuart Arts nice! You are welcome and thanks for watching.
I just found your channel. I've been thinking about making my own turning tools to save money. Your video convinced me to do so. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Don I appreciate it. Making your own tools is great. The only real difficult part is boring the hole, which I used a router to make channels. You can drill a hole too, but I believe it's harder to drill a long straight line for a 20" inch handle. I I had a long lathe bed Imay have drilled he handle on the lathe. Take care.
Thanks for this! I have been threatening to make my own carbide tools for quite a while. This pushes me over the top.
+Herman Potgieter Thank you sir and good luck on making your own carbide tools. They work great and its worth the time to make them just they way you want them. Thanks again.
Very nice! Thanks for posting this.
Your welcome sir. Thank you for watching.
great video & explanations. tyvm 4 sharing your knowledge. knew to the lathe & am addicted to it, enjoy using carbide tools as a beginner.
+Marnbaby Thank you.
Excellent video and I'm now inspired enough to give this a shot myself!!
Thank you! I'm so glad you are inspired by this video, that's one of my main goals. Good luck on your project sir.
I used a small drill press with a small cut-off wheel and cut the ledge nearly in the exact same fashion you did! Love it.
That’s another good idea! Thank again and for watching.
That was a superb video, and a great tool when finished.
Thank you so much.
An interesting approach to fitting the bar into the handle. I like it.
When I made one, I rounded over the edges of the bar to make it mostly circular so that it would fit in a normally drilled hole.
Cheers,
Ben
TeamWild hi, I haven't tried that method yet. At the time of this video I wasn't able to drill a long straight hole so I went with the router method. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Great video. I will try to make some tools myself in the future. Your video will be very helpful. Thanks for making this video, it really helps us novices.
Doswell Pierce thank you and thanks for watching.
Nice demo! It is very well explained and executed. Please keep it up! Victor
Thank you, I appreciate it.i always try my best to make my videos entertaining, inspirational, and well explained. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Excellent job .. thanks for sharing
Ray Lentz thank you and thanks for watching.
Great top notch video. Very useful info. I just finished one up today, a neg. rake, although not near as neat and clean as yours. Thanks for posting. Beautiful work.
Thank you and for watching my friend!
Excellent video, great narration, very fine tool you made there. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thank you!
Great video and thanks for sharing!!!
Saludos from Santiago of Chile.
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Nice work thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching my friend.
Very instructive video Harry Woodturner from scotland
Great tutorial. I appreciate the calm and knowledgeable narration. I'll have to give this a go. (Although I'll have to pick up a couple more tools for metal working first)
-Todd
Wood Frontier Thank you for watching. I appreciate your feedback. Good luck with your project.
Great video sir. Nice job on the finished product. I appreciate your detail by adding the radius behind the cutting insert (the round one.) You do good work man.
Thank you very much!
I agree. Any ideas on how to do a diamond shape?
Seems like a fairly easy build, just what I need!
E.D Bogan they are! Sorry for this video, somehow it developed some audio issues. Not sure how, but I have a redo: ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html
Great video. May try to make one based on you video. Thanks, Lloyd
Thank you! Good luck in your project.
Using the Dremel router table is a great idea. I'm going to copy your method and make my own set of these tools.
BM Australia excellent, and thanks for watching.
Well done. Creative approach making the square channel to take the square steel to keep it from rotating.
One note: As long as you have the bar clamped to the drill press, you might as well just swap the drill bit out for the tap in the chuck. That way, you can use the drill quill to keep the tap perfectly straight in the hole while you turn it in by hand using the drill chuck as a handle (never under power).
NMranchhand hey, thanks, that’s a good tip. I do that all the time, but totally forgot this that time. Thanks for watching!
nice tip on using the dremel
imakeandimprove Thank you! It's the only thing I could think of at that time in the shop.
Great video i have just started woodturning i am going to have a go at making carbide tools . from kiwiron
ron cole hi, thank and thanks for watching. Making your own tools is really fun and rewarding. Definitely give it a try. Cheers my friend.
Nice job
+Win Michaels Thank you!
Excellent job! Enjoyed watching . May make one.
Thank you kindly Spencer. I appreciate it. It's one of my favorite lathe tools and I've made several more. Highly recommend making your own tools, it's enjoyable and the tools are just the way you like them.
Great video! I have viewed a few videos by other wood turners, and I have to say you did a very fine job keeping the method simple and explaining your process in great detail. All in all, a very fine job. Now for my question. The straight tool seems to be simple enough, but I have been looking around RUclips and found a few videos on making a curved shaft carbide tool for hollowing out narrow opening vases and weed pots. Have you considered trying to make such a carbide tool? Again, very fine video and keep up the good work.
+Stephen Landry Thank you very much Stephen. I always try to keep the method simple and to add as much information as I can think of at the time of making the videos. I often find I have too much to say and not enough video clip, so I just pick the most important info to state.
Funny you should ask about the carbide hollowing tools, Ive been thinking about making one and posting a video. I just made two more carbide tools for rough cutting, and they are smaller than the one in the video. As for the hollowing tool, the process is very similar to this video. The differences are: bending a steel round bar (can use a metal bench vise), and keeping the carbide cutter inline with the tang shaft. By using a round bar instead of a square for hollowing, one can very the aggressiveness by tilting the tool: straight (parallel to the floor) for really aggressive, and tilted down for less aggressiveness. Anyway, hope that answers your question and you may see a video on this topic in the near future. I have a few videos now in the process, so maybe after I finish these videos. Again, thanks for watching, I really appreciate it.
The cutting inserts are on the way from the United states :) , you did really a gr8 job and i like the way you work , so Safety ..
greetings from germany .
Thank you and thank you for watching. I do try my best to be the safest I can be in the shop. Good luck on your tool making project. Making tools is fun and addictive. Plus, you can make them just the way you want. Cheers!
+SP Wood Art thats exactly what I wanted,just making the tool as I wish to be...anyway you helpt me really much, you gave all the informations what every one of us needed...go ahead with your vidios and we stick around you ;-)..alles the best.
+Algeria Bob thank you so much, I appreciate it!
Something happened to the sound. Here’s a newer video on carbide tool. ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html
Very nice tutorial full view,like/subd
Γιαννης( Αθηνα Ελλαδα)
Thank you and you watching!
Building woodwork project is pleasurable, but not easy. It's best to build it step by step in a correct order to make sure your final project operates as your expectation.
+Drew Schimmel This guideline makes it simpler building woodwork project, to make it practical to every person, regardless of you are born with ten thumbs: help1.info/detailed-wood-work-blueprint-x00019
Thank you for watching I appreciate it.
Nice job! I will be making my own as well. Other than the aesthetics, is there any real need to make the cut out pocket for the cutter to sit in? Could the cutter be mounted on the top of the 1/2 square steel? Thanks again! KP
Kevin Pouch Hi Kevin, the cutout makes the sitter even with the top of the tool shaft. If you added the cutter to the top of the shafted you would really have to adjust you tool rest to accommodate the height. In my opinion the cutout is worth it to know where the cutter is and to have more control. Hope that helps, thank you for watching. Cheers!
The chances are that the Dremmel will not grind flat as the wheel will get thinner at the edge as you feed it in. Personally I prefer to use a file or an end mill in the drill press.
CrackerJack Hi, That’s a good tip and I haven’t seen a difference in the wheel, but I knows what you mean. The mill in the drill press is also a great idea. I wonder if the sideways pressure would put a toll on the drill press? Thank you for watching. Cheers.
I'm not sure what happened to the sound on this video, but it needs to be fixed.
SP Wood Art So fix it?
watched your video and just had to make me one, but is the cutter suppose to fit loosely?
Hi Terry, thanks for watching. The cutter should not be loose at all. The cutters should be tight and should not move at all. Sounds like the head of the screw is not going down all the way to tighten the cutter. If you drilled a hole all the way through then the screw shouldn't be stopping, may need to chamfer the threaded hole a little so the screw goes down farther, or you could use a different screw without a tapered head. Hope that helps.
Nice work!! How did you strip the screw, I'm curious so i won't make the same error?
Hi, I tightened the screw too much and stripped it out. Thanks for watching.
@@spwoodart ahhh! Thank you! Your video is awesome!!!!
could you or someone send me an link to the tap and drillbit needed ? btw nice video , do you sell them also ?
John Hill Hi John, thanks for watching and sorry about the video sound which is messed-up. I have a newer video that is more descriptive (refer to link below). The tap I used for a larger carbide cutter was 8-32 and the drill bit was #29. I used 1045 carbon steel bar. Thanks! ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html
Beautiful job. Can you tell us how much you spent making this?
James Haines hi, thank you. I probably spent about $35 and mostly that was the carbide cutter. Thanks for watching.
What kind of steel are you using?
1045 steel.
Did you say what type of steel you used,a2,o1.etc.and size?
Hi, I didn't mention the steel type but I did mention the size. I used a Cio Easy wood tools (EWT) round cutter with a 1045 carbon steel rectangular 1/2 inch bar, unpolished. It has good strength and is the right size for the Cio EWT cutter so that the bevel hangs over the edge. Hope that helps, thanks for watching. Cheers!
is it important to use 1/2" bar. Or would I get away with using 3/8th inch bar, as I have a length of that in stock.
Hi, I would say it depends on the size of your carbide cutter, and/or its shape. If you have a round cutter like the one in this video you would want the top of the cutter to be larger than the bar, or the bottom of the cutter to be almost even with the width of the bar. Yet, if you have say, a smaller diamond point carbide cutter, you could use a smaller size bar. Also, you can buy a smaller sized round carbide cutter for a 3/8 bar. You really just want the carbide bevel supported for stability and strength. Hope, that helps. Thanks for watching and cheers.
+SP Wood Art thanks for the quick response. I have a couple of 15mm square cutters and a 16mm round ordered, so I might just get myself some 1/2" bar to use and save the 3/8th inch for maybe a detailer cutter or if I start using smaller cutters. thanks again and look forward to watching more of your videos.
+B Lenane ok, sounds good. Love to see some pics when your done. I don't believed I mentioned it in the video, but I used 1045 steel which is a medium carbon steel, but I haven't had any issues. The 1045 is stronger than 1018 and is cheaper than the high carbon steels like 1095. Thank again my friend.
SP Wood Art My cutter tips came in so here are the 4 tools I made for them: imgur.com/LjJiJfj
+B Lenane hey, those look great. Nice job on shaping the metal for the carbide cutters. I especially like the diamond (detail) point one. I also like the flared ends of the handles. Great job duplicating the handles as well.Thank you so much for sharing. Cheers my friend.
You remind me of christifer Lowel I fell supper lol
jayboney el toro thanks and thanks for watching.
Did you have any problems tapping? The carbide cutters I picked up require a 6 x 40 or 6 x 32 screw for mounting. I can't for the life of me get it to tap without breaking a tap. At $50.00 for a package of 10, I can afford to discard the cutters I received.
Ronald Lambier Hi Ronald, I have broken taps in the past and have stripped my fair
share of screws. I actually stripped the original screw that came with
my Easy Wood Tool cutter in this video. I own Dewalt and Irwin taps and
have not had an issue with them breaking. Many factors could influence
the tap breaking, such as tap size, steel hardness, etc. My method is:
lubricate often with WD-40 and hand-turn (no drills) the tap slowly with
small turns and then back it out, lubricate, then rinse and repeat. It takes
a while doing it this way, but I have yet to break a tap using this method.
I have two more carbide tools that I'm going to make that have 4 x 32
screws . . . that should be fun. Don't discard those cutters, I'm sure you
will prevail. Cheers and thanks for watching.
so? I thought you were making a carbide tool ,eg, the cutter. I found handles that smooth can slip out of your hand , 320 and sanding sealer but no polish is enough. Regards Alf
Alf Key thanks and thank you for watching. I have never had an issue with a smooth handle slipping, but it's good to consider. Cheers!
Hi, Where can i buy the carbide? saludos desde Ecuador
VICTOR MANUEL DAVILA CORTAZAR hi Victor, thanks for watching. I buy my carbide cutters on Amazon. I buy the Easy Wood Tools cutters. Cheers!
SP Wood Art thanks, From where do you transmit?
VICTOR MANUEL DAVILA CORTAZAR I'm in USA, New Jersey
A round hole drilled in handle after turning would give more room for epoxy
Sherman Sly thank you and for watching. A round hole would work for a shorted handle. Drilling long holes and having them perfectly straight is extremely difficult. At the time I didn’t have the equipment either. Gun drilling rods are an option for long holes. Thanks.
isn't the length of this tool a bit impractical ? surely it's more useful for hollowing curved bowl interiors that using it between centres, and that length of handle is just a bit too long for manoeuvering. dont mean to be negative but just curious. I made one, similar process, only 15 inches total length and it works great, you are only ever going to be cutting with a tiny portion against the wood.
Hello, it all depends on what you are making. A 20" handle is small for a 30" bowl. The longer the handle the more you can balance over the tool rest. In general, a tool of this length will have a reach over the tool rest of about 4". Easy wood tools also has larger tools. I've seen at wood shows tools as long as 4' feet for large work. Again, it depends on what your doing. For 10" bowls 15" is fine. Thank you for the feedback and for watching.
+SP Wood Art fair enough, as long as you got one for your smaller stuff, regards.
+misterbracks I do, I also have two 14" ones in the making. It's great making your own tools. Again, thanks for watching. Cheers!
if you havent got engineers blue then use a sharpie makes life a lot easier for marking out.... Juts file it flat with a decent file, takes about 10 minutes and no Machine needed. Sadly us engineers are taught for 6 months to file as part of a 7 year apprenticeship in the UK and we file a cube from a lump of metal to within tolerances you wouldn't believe are possible by hand, just a decent file and a bit of time. Dont get it write youre off the course!. The black on the metal is called fire scale and is part of the rolling and drawing process when they make it, if you ever want to weld that bar get that black off or it wont penetrate properly.
Sitges Villa Apartment I do use a sharpie, I just didn’t this time. I could have used a file, but I like using my power tools. Cheers and thanks for watching!
Hello- Great idea of using the Dremel type cut off tool for a uniform flat surface for the cutter seat, and a small grinding wheel for the rounded back side.
Here's another novel video using an inexpensive Harbor Freight pry bar --
ruclips.net/video/qnlUBujDakY/видео.html
to make the shank and handle for a carbide tipped tool ....
Mjb Consulting-inc thank you and I watched the video link you sent. Nice.
How long is the whole tool?
About 21 inches long
Thank you. I am making one from mahogany, walnut and oak. Do you think that’s some good wood to use?
Sound is messed up when you start making the handle.
billy19461 billy19461 thanks, I know and I’m not sure what happened to this video audio. I did make another video, updated video. Thanks for watching and I hope it fix this audio.
billy19461 ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html here’s the newer video
Ha Ha, Im an auto mechanic, My first chisel was made from a large square MAC screwdriver shank, it was so hard i had to weld in a nut to hold the carbide bit, TOO Hard to drill and tap!
Thank you
Did the audio loop about halfway through for anyone else?
Renner Hogan hi, the audio on this video has been corrupted and I not sure how. I’m am in the process of trying to fit it. I just make another carbide video to replace this one.
If Easy Wood Tools weren't so greedy in their price fixing then people wouldn't need to be doing this so I guess it serves them right
The President of The Internet I like making my own tools, they always seem better, but I know what you mean. Thanks for watching.
Take it slow, in and out, and lubricate often.....lol
WD 40 is not a lubricant, it is a solvent and oil will make your tools last much longer.
Dave Sloane thanks for tip tip and watching.
your audio is off
oldhess I know, thanks. Sorry. Check out my other video on making carbide tools.
sound screwed up half way through, needs to be re-edited and uploaded. Too bad could have been a decent video
D. Reichert I know and I’m not sure what happened to it. Thanks here’s an updated video on carbide.
ruclips.net/video/KsdFCu_7lhQ/видео.html
Not a bad video, but please learn how to pronounce the word “mortise”. I’m a 40 year veteran in custom cabinets and stairways and that’s not the correct pronunciation for that word
Noted, thanks for watching
I think your video is messed up,no instruction on how to make the handle....on a side note,,,tint smoke weed while making a video.
Stuart Sullenbarger hi Stuart, I know the video audio got messed up some how. No sure how, but I need to fix it. Maybe reload the audio over the video? Thanks for watching. I have another video on the topic. Making carbide tools.
great video & explanations. tyvm 4 sharing your knowledge. knew to the lathe & am addicted to it, enjoy using carbide tools as a beginner.
+Marnbaby Thank you and thank you for watching. I hope to help other turners.