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Cutting Edges on Metal lathe Cutters

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Chris TickTock29/07/2020 20:27:18
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Hi Guys,

My issue has been to understand which edges on common metal tahe cutters are the edges that due the cutting (shearing) and those that would therewfore need sharpening.

Can anyone poiunt to a good explanation of say a right hand cutter?

Chris

JasonB29/07/2020 20:39:06
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Your best bet would be to put a R/H cutter in the toolpost and watch what edge does the work as you cut, it will be the one contacting the work and doing the cutting.

As an example I have marked the cutting edge on this R/H tool in green

rh edge.jpg

You can see it doing the cutting here, bit too heavy a cut for your Sherline but it does show the whole edge working.

pgk pgk29/07/2020 20:45:44
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In the geometry of the tool being held below the possible cutting edges are the side, the angled front and the corner between. The actual edges used to cut are between those faces and the top. However you really only need to sharpen the side and front and corner reliefs since that slicks up those edges with perhaps a little stoning of the top face to remove burs.

pgk

Chris TickTock29/07/2020 21:11:13
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Posted by pgk pgk on 29/07/2020 20:45:44:

In the geometry of the tool being held below the possible cutting edges are the side, the angled front and the corner between. The actual edges used to cut are between those faces and the top. However you really only need to sharpen the side and front and corner reliefs since that slicks up those edges with perhaps a little stoning of the top face to remove burs.

pgk

Wonderful video..thanks

Chris

larry phelan 130/07/2020 19:12:57
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You could do worse than look up Sparey,s book, still good after 80? years.

He does [did ] explain this in simple terms [even I could understand it ]

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