Carbid tipped tools

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Eddie123

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Hello.

Can anyone here recommend some carbid tipped tools, good for woodturning ?

I was hoping to find some that are good quality, reasonable price, and a shop that will post them internationally !

Thanks.

Vegard
 
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Eddie, look at Ken's Woodchuck. it uses replaceable carbide cutters. No sharpening.

The carbide tipped tools are a flat out pain to sharpen.

Neither are cheap, but with Ken's I know you won't regret it.
 
Hi there.

Thanks for the tip, I will have a look there.

How long can I expect a carbid tip to last?



Russianwolf said:
Eddie, look at Ken's Woodchuck. it uses replaceable carbide cutters. No sharpening.

The carbide tipped tools are a flat out pain to sharpen.

Neither are cheap, but with Ken's I know you won't regret it.
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depends on what you are turning and how good you are at sharpening.

The carbide tipped wood turning tools are very limited in options. I think there is a pen turners set and that's it. It has a 1/2 inch skew, a spindle gouge and a parting tool. PSI sells it if I recall correctly.

The cutters aren't too bad on the replaceable ones, and all you have to do to get a nice sharp edge is rotate the cutter. Once all sides are dull, toss it and put a new one on.

There have even been a couple guys, Ken being one of them, that made their own holders for the carbide inserts. Ken just made the effort to offer them to us who don't want to be bothered with making it ourself.
 
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57271

Hi Eddie and welcome to IAP. See above link in regards to carbide tipped turning tools. I make and sell the ROTONDO. If interested and it fits your needs, I will gladly ship to your destination.

Thanks for looking.
 
Russianwolf said:
Eddie, look at Ken's Woodchuck. it uses replaceable carbide cutters. No sharpening.

The carbide tipped tools are a flat out pain to sharpen.

Neither are cheap, but with Ken's I know you won't regret it.
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I don't want to hijack this thread, so I posted another on sharpeneing the inserts. If the insert has a flat top, a diamond hone works well.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1116057

Please post all sharpening comments to the thread above.
 
I have had the PSI set for over 3 years now and I absolutely love them . They aren't too hard to sharpen , I've used a sheet of plate glass and self stick wet or dry sand paper and a diamond hone until I got my Tiger 2000 (a Tormak clone) . They hold their sharp edge a long time doing the hardest of Tru stones and even metals , which means more time turning and less time sharpening .
The gouge is fantastic for pen work , it can take allot of material off without the tear out you can get with a scraper type tool and the skew is a true skew so you can do a shearing cut for an incredibly smooth finish that needs very little if any sanding .
The only limitation is that because the tips are only brazed on (you can't weld carbide) you have to keep the tool rest tight to the work , if you let the tool overhang the tool rest past the brazed joint the tip can break off . The only time I've done that was doing a bowl with them , I wasn't thinking . I have the other types of carbide tools as well but these are my go to tools for pen work and I'd be lost without them .
 
I agree with Mike and Butch. I use Ken's Woodchuck Pen Pro on almost every pen I make. Additionally, I use the same PSI carbide tools that Butch uses for shaping and final cuts.

Both the PSI carbides and the Woodchuck outperform every other cutting tool in my shop.
 
wood-of-1kind said:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57271

Hi Eddie and welcome to IAP. See above link in regards to carbide tipped turning tools. I make and sell the ROTONDO. If interested and it fits your needs, I will gladly ship to your destination.

Thanks for looking.
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I do almost all of my turning with the Rontondo tool. I don't know if those inserts can be sharpened of not.
 
Dudley Young said:
I do almost all of my turning with the Rontondo tool. I don't know if those inserts can be sharpened of not.
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The ROTONDO solid carbide inserts are considered as "disposable" when they reach the end of their life cycle. If you really want to extend its life a bit longer then you may sharpen the insert on a flat card file.
 
I can recommend Ken's tools. I turned 20 pens in the last two days that were a mixture of wood or acrylics. The Pen Pro flat out eats wood. I can't even tell the insert has dulled at all. You also have to be careful around bushings, it eats them too! It cuts so well you have to be careful to slow down a bit. Don't ask me how I know this. I just ordered a second one and a round 1 tool in a little longer length so my daughter can have her own. Yeah, she gets the used one.
 
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