RIDGID WL1200LS1 manual Using The Parting Tool, Using The Scraping Chisels

How To Use Your RIDGID Wood Lathe (continued)

Using The Parting Tool

The parting tool has just one primary pur- pose: to cut straight into the workpiece as deep as desired, or all the way through to make a cut-off. It is therefore a very nar- row tool - 1/8-in. wide - and is shaped to

cut its own clearance so that the edge will

not be burned. When used for scraping,CuttingScraping however, it should be backed off regularly

to prevent overheating.

Unlike the gouge and skew, the parting tool is seldom held with the bevel against the work. As the amount of stock removed is small, a support for the bevel is not nec- essary.

The tool is simply fed into the work at an angle (for cutting), or pointed at the work- piece center (for scraping). It can be held easily in one hand.

Using The Scraping Chisels

A 1/2-in. wide spear point chisel, a 1/2-in. wide round nose chisel, and a 1 -in. wide flatnose chisel complete the list of tools ordinarily used by home craftsmen. Each of these scraping chisels can be pur- chased in various other sizes for special purposes. All are very useful for diameter scraping operations and for circumfer- ence scraping when cutting methods can- not be employed. The spear point is used for fine scraping and delicate operations, such as the forming of beads, parallel grooves and shallow vees. Edges and bowl contours can be rounded with the round nose chisel. Any flat surface can be scraped with the flatnose chisel.

Spear Round Flat

Point Nose Nose

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