What is a wood chisel?

Wood chisel is a specialized tool used by woodcuts for cutting wood that quickly turns on to the lathe. Like all chisels, it has wood or plastic handle to grab a metal stick or stem, which is very sharp at the tip; Unlike other chisels, however, the handle is about half the length of the tool, which is usually at least 12 inches (30.48 cm). The game of a modern wood rotation chisel is made of either carbon steel or high -speed steel and is usually a rectangular place of cylindrical shape. Three different tools are used to turn wood: chisels, grooves and scrapers. Even in woodworking circles, however, all are commonly referred to as wood rotation chisels. Sometimes the force is applied by wood muscle, carefully lays a sharp edge of the bottom to the wood surface and pushes it into the wood, cuts. In other cases, the mallet provides force. Chisels are sometimes used to cut decorative patterns into wood and sometimes to trim excess wood from workpiece such as pin or mAlta to help fine -tune the joint. In most of the traditional forms of wood processing, however, screwers are not the main tool, only one of many.

As soon as the workpiece is mounted on the lathe, on the other hand all cutting and shaping is performed using mowers with wood. However, the techniques used are very different from techniques used with standard wooden chisels. Instead of clamping the workpiece to maintain stationary, it is mounted on a lathe that spins it at high speed. The rotary chisel of the wood is reinforced against the rest of the tool and pushed against the spinning workpiece. More strength is used by a stabilizing chisel turning the wood when it comes into contact with the rotating workpiece, although it actually push its tip into the workpiece.

The use of a lathe to spin the workpiece on the axis creates a cylindrical object. In addition to full -size lathes used to rotate things such as the legs of the chairAnd tables, balusters and bowls are made for the production of objects such as wooden bushings, made mini lathes. Turners of wood can sometimes express their creativity freestyle work, especially when creating bowls or lamp base. In most cases, however, they must generally use templates to turn wood, often measuring the depth of its cuts and other precise tools. This is important in performing production work such as Balusters for Staircases.

There are literally hundreds of different types of chisel turning wood. The main differences between them are the type of steel from which they are made and the size and shape of their cutting edges. With the introduction of high -speed steel at the end of the 20th century, the Wood Turners of the Harm History much stronger tools that allow higher speeds on the lathe and allow softer and faster work. Many different shapes and sizes of cutting edges of chisels allow the Turners a wider range of flexibility and creativity.