Negative Rake Carbide Inserts

[RProctor]

Is Easy Wood Tools the only seller of these types of inserts? I've been looking around and have not seem to found other brands or manufacturers of these.

 

[walshjp17]

It seems so, although I heard that AZ Carbide may be looking in them.

 

[keithlong]

Woodturningz.com has them in Square Radius and Round and Diamond Shape also. I hve bought pen kits from them and are always prompt with their deliveries.

 

[RProctor]

Woodturningz.com has them in Square Radius and Round and Diamond Shape also. I hve bought pen kits from them and are always prompt with their deliveries.

The cutters on their website are the Easy Wood Tools..... I. Not looking for a new place to buy them..... I'm wondering if anyone else makes them.....

 

[RicklesssS]

My first post!
I talked with AZ carbide a month or so back, as I was on a waiting list to possibly purchase their negative rake cutters.
He informed me they were warned by Easy Tool to not peruse the matter.
Seems like it's NOT a patentable idea, seeing how with non-carbide scrapers, at least, lots of folks make negative rake tools..
Hope they can make them someday.
Ricklesss in Oregon

 

[RProctor]

Thanks for the info.....company attitudes like this really turn me off from companies. I'm actually pursuing what another member did which was grind a 20 degree down angle on the bar and mount a normal carbide insert that way, giving it the angle with the advantage of being able to touch up and have options.

 

[duncsuss]

I think the concept of "negative rake carbide inserts" is fundamentally flawed. Watch the Stuart Batty video again. He states it about as clearly as possible: it is the BURR on the edge of the negative rake scraper that does the cutting.

Show me a carbide insert with a burr.