The Versatile Beading and Parting Tool for Woodturning

I demonstrate how useful a beading and parting woodturning tool is for making beads and using as a parting tool. I show how to make a beading and parting tool from an inexpensive High Speed Steel blank.
You can get the inexpensive HSS blanks for a beading and parting tool from my Amazon shop. amzn.to/34GXVSv for my favorite size 8mmx8mm or 5/16"
amzn.to/3RVZVv9 for larger 10mm or 3/8"
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You can download demonstration handouts, downloadable copies of articles I have published, and other useful woodturning information available on my website www.mikepeacewoodturning.com/r...

[@reltcl1995]

I can not find the liptonburg wood burner I'd like to make one of those The handle looks great Thanks Ronnie

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I do not know anyone selling them. Too dangerous. MOre than 50 woodturners have died using them. I removed my videos on fractal burning because I did not want to be responsible for someone electrocuting themselves. Stay safe my friend.

[@reltcl1995]

@@MikePeaceWoodturning oh ok thanks

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Just finished facilitating our monthly hands on workshop at my club Chattahoochee Woodturners. We had six folks making a handle, installing the HSS blank, sharpening and learning how to use.

[@scottgaber2267]

Mike I bought those tool steels and they came with an angle on both ends. So I built the tool and sharpened to that angle and it fits my dove tail jaws perfectly. Thanks for the info and I'am going to make another one that is straight on the end. Thanks again for a great video.

[@benjabens2058]

after watching your video, al my holes for handels are strait now!thanks,mike

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Excellent!

[@diydarkmatter]

boy i always enjoy your videos mike buddy .

[@JimmiePorterAtStuartArts]

I enjoy using the tools I've made more than any others.

[@BarrysWoodturning]

Nice video, Mike. I admit I never gave much thought to grain orientation, so thanks for pointing that out.

[@ScrapwoodCity]

Nice tool, I like the way you drilled that hole straight!

[@stevearnold3175]

Great video Mike! I'll probably never get around to making one of these tools, but I still enjoyed watching it.

[@WithTheGrain527]

really great video Mike. I love the handle pattern, it looks like spalting :) thanks for sharing.

[@colinchalmers1099]

very good video Mike,liked the grain orentation,good tip, cheers Colin.

[@jdstar6352]

The Japanese method for mounting square tangs into round, preferably slightly tapered holes, is to heat the tang dull red and then plunge it into the bored hole. The tang burns out the wood to from a square shaped receiving hole. Works great without the the grinding. Added bonus is that the hole has been broached into a square and the tool will resist rotation in the handle.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thanks. I will try that next time. My club will be making these in a workshop.

[@johnmer3000]

Mike, thanks for most helpful video and it looks like you're fully back in action. You & Cap'n Eddie have just proved that a good man can't be put down for long! Congratulations on your return to WT world. John Merchant Texas

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thanks for the well wishes.

[@leksey7870]

A great informational video. Excellent equipment. Like!

[@donfillenworth1721]

I never thought about grain orientation in a tool handle. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@jackmaravola2496]

Thank you so much Mike. Another great idea you have shared,. I like the idea of using for a tendon. Sure does make turning a tendon a lot easier.

[@bernym4047]

Awesome superbly produced. Thanks.

[@edhekman6615]

Thanks for the idea of using the 8mm square bar. I made a bedan and an offset dovetail tool for cutting a dovetail recess close to the tailstock as you showed in an earlier video (2015-10-8).

[@johnnyspropshop]

Mike another fine tool build, will ear mark it for my to do list. Thanks for sharing.

[@glenwithrow9371]

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[@keithcorodimas8093]

Thanks very much--I am off to your handle video now. Keith

[@RickTurnsWoodturning]

Great video, Mike!

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thanks, Rick. Glad you were able to see the actual tool in person.

[@larrypack1]

Great video. IMHO, wood splits more easily across the grain, that is radially, though I doubt there would ever be enough stress to split it open.

[@simonhopkins3867]

good advice about grain direction I've made several turning tools out of hss and never given it a thought. :-)

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I got a detailed explanation of this from a professional turner. It was not something I would have ever thought of.

[@donbeveridge997]

Hey Mike, just want you to know that I followed your lead and bought the HSS blanks from your store on Amazon. Thanks for the heads up.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Excellent. I use this tool so much.

[@donbeveridge997]

Mike, you use a Robo Rest in this video to sharpen - what degree do you have it set at?

[@SuperBowser87]

Nice Mike! Do you think the bur after sharpening does much or is it gone on the first cut? Just wondering.Do you think copper makes a poor ferrule or is it good enough? Thanks for your time and help as always.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Copper is plenty strong enough. I would be more concerned about some of the very thin brass ones that have a dimple in them that come new with many tools! Using this tool on spindles slicing is not nearly as hard on an edge as it would be used as a scraper.

[@t.sowers7583]

Hi, great video on making a parting tool. Just curious, what tail stock system are you using in this video?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

That is Teknatool Nova Live Center. I did a review on it some time back kzbin.info/www/bejne/bF7dmqmwgMt8aaM

[@t.sowers7583]

Thank you!

[@billbrookes8717]

Thanks for the heads up on grain direction for tools handles. Couldn't one also make a bedan from the same material?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Yes. I don't care for the bedan. French or English

[@traog2445]

Went on ebay and found some stock to try this on. I might try making a bedan to.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Watch my video making a hooked scraper from this stock. I never found a bedan a good fit for me. YMMV

[@randymagee735]

thanks for the video! Your teaching style fits me. Question, What is the advantage of this tool over a bedan?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I don't have a good answer and I do not want to make one up .I guess it depends on the user.The British bedan has a trapezoid shape. This one was easier to make. I guess I like this because I saw a local user demonstrate using it to make probably 80% of the cuts on a solid globe ornament so I found the inexpensive 8mm bars of HSS I show in my Amazon shop and made one. I have been happy with it. I do not know any turners that use a bedan in their demos other than a couple of French turners so had little exposure to using one.

[@rustynorley6885]

What about using a headstock mount drill chuck from Penn State Industries (Item # TM 42) instead of using a drill chuck that requires a "draw bar"? Or even your drill bit fitted with a #2 morse taper which also requires a draw bar for use. It seems to me that the headstock mounted drill chuck would be safer and cheaper in the long run. What do you think? Thanks, Rusty

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

See my recent video on Drilling on the lathe. Hard to cram every related topic into a video or I get to rambling.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I decorated the handle with my Lichtenberg burning unit. Because of the more than 21 deaths from fractal burning I have removed my Lichtenberg videos. Stay safe!

[@robertschaeffer5861]

Not related but remember all the folks in the beginning of deep frying turkeys..thanks for the video...

[@micstica]

Newbe question. Is this 8mm parting tool used for the same purpose as the square carbide tools?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

It could do some of the same tasks I suppose. I don't have a square carbide scraper. But I would guess they each would do some task better than the other.

[@OtterLakeFlutes]

I'm confused how to use the tool with a sorby sizing tool. Let's say I set it to 1.250" using calipers. It holds a rounded, blunt poker that far away from the beading tool's cutting edge, so that when you sink down to that diameter you can see you're there... in theory. But by the time you're "measuring" the diameter of your workpiece you're necessarily near the centerline and that sonovoagun wants to grab if you're cutting 3/8"! And if I flip it 90 degrees and make a V groove the measuring poker won't go all the way down to the bottom of the cut.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I have never used one. Maybe it is sold to solve a problem I don't have. Sometimes tool manufacturers come up with ideas for tools to sell tools. Regular calipers work for me.

[@kidclown222]

Would I set the plate for the grinder at 22 1/2 degrees to make the 45 degrees included angle?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Or the opposite 67.5. Depends on how you look at it.

[@kidclown222]

Thank you very much, just received the Steel and am planning on making this and a round skew and point tool, I found out the round stock is not heat treated does that matter? Thanks for your help

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

@@kidclown222 For a 1/4 round tool I doubt if heat treating will matter. It may not be as hard but should get the job done. May take more sharpening but I rarely take my small round tools back to the grinder but just toouch up with a hone.

[@kidclown222]

@@MikePeaceWoodturning Thank you very much I’m just starting out at 68 bought an old Shopsmith, trying to teach myself. Having a great time, love watching your videos and learning from them, also learning a lot from other great turner’s like Sam Angelo, Captain Eddie and a lot of others. Thank you very much, and keep the videos coming

[@cyc4ctk92]

the info on wood burning tool ?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I added a link in my first comment at the top. Thanks for asking.

[@dalemarsh942]

great video but lost sound about 3/8 into your video

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I am not experiencing that problem. There is a brief silence as I show a picture of ferrules at about 3:38.

[@adrieschuurbiers1607]

ik zou zeggen , je kunt beter doen waar je verstand van hebt