What is the best steel for wood turning tools. From what you can make them yourself

Greetings.

With the appearance of a lathe in my workshop, I am actively mastering turning. I am looking for information on turning techniques, on turning tools, on their own production.

I found clear videos on the turning technique on YouTube. Found them on the recommendation from the channel DIY furniturewhich I read from time to time.

This is a video from a professional turner Lev Korneeva. Although in some things he is quite categorical, but maybe this is the way to give material for beginners. So that you can immediately get results, and with the acquisition of experience, you can already begin to understand what's what.

This master has several videos about turning tools and about their manufacture. The best cutters are high-speed cutters, and more specifically, these are steel grades P9 and P18.

I wanted to make myself such incisors, and I began to look for where the easiest way to get a quick cutter for self-production. I found many old quick-cut drills in my pieces of iron, but it's still difficult for me to make them. I also got a bar of 16 mm in diameter, I checked it by a spark like a quick cutter.

By the way, I probably reviewed about a dozen video clips on how to determine the grade of steel by spark.

As a result, we got such a cutter.

I tried to sharpen an oak with it and was very impressed with the result.

I carved this with one chisel and such a surface turned out after the chisel, I did not even touch it with sandpaper.

Cutters made of carbon steel (files) also work well, but still feel more comfortable with a quick cut.

I fired up to make myself more cutters for turning. I began to look at what steel P9 and the like were used, it turned out drills, taps, reamers.

In the market, in trays where they sell all sorts of pieces of iron, I bought a couple of old reamers to try to make incisors out of them.

One has already done. Used it as a peeling. I liked how he cuts.

I cut off the excess with a grinder, then gave the shape on a grinder, and then finished it by hand. The work is not fast, but interesting, and the result is pleasing.

That's what I want to make meisel out of.

And what to make of the piston has not yet decided. As far as I found out, this is alloy steel, though I don't know which one.

Of course, it is important to sharpen the cutters well and develop the turning technique. Previously, I was more able to scrape with incisors, rather than cut. Now the beginning of something will turn out and it pleases.

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Alexander.

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