Making a Parting Tool from a File

A member of the woodturning club I belong to made a parting tool with a file without having to mess around with heat and temper. He ground the file slowly and carefully enough not to overheat it. I liked the result, so I made one for myself out of a small flat file I've had for decades and that was no longer sharp.
I didn't realize there might be a video in this, so I didn't bother to film the steel work. No matter. The wood work was more interesting than watching sparks fly.

Soon I will have had my Laguna Revo 12/16 lathe for a full year. There are things I like and things I don't. I'll do a review next month.

If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer
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you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until July last year. I'd watched a few woodturning videos and got the bug. The prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high at a sale and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started.
After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with the bed extension that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expect this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life.

Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner.

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