Parting on the Lathe

[awemawson]

Nice video Tom,

You were grinding your tool to have a neutral cutting action. Do you not ever grind the tool to have a slight angle on the cutting edge, either left or right, to determine if the pip is left on the part or the stock?

I confess these days I tend to use insert indexable parting tools, and these come in either left, neutral, or right cutting varieties. My rear tool post however has an HSS parting tool that I custom grind to the job in hand depending which piece needs to be the finished part.

Andrew