Abstract: A disposable woodworking tool includes a cutter bar and a locking piece, the front end of the cutter bar installed with a cutting head, while the tail end of the cutter bar is installed with a connecting long sleeve. The tail end of the cutter bar includes a tail end installation part fixedly connected with the connecting long sleeve via a locking piece in a detachable manner. The cutter bar includes planes along the length direction extending to the position, where the cutting head is installed, on the front end of the cutter bar, and the locking piece utilizes the principle of a spring collet. In use, instant switching of the angle of the cutting head can occur through switching of planes, without a tool. Rapid replacement of the cutter bar can occur.

Abstract: A cutting implement includes a V-shaped blade portion that defines an aperture through which a quadriceps tendon may pass as a doctor harvests the tendon through a minimally invasive procedure.

Abstract: A woodturning tool according to embodiments of the present invention includes a shaft with a shaft tip, wherein the shaft tip is made of a first metal, and a cutting edge insert, at least a portion of an outer surface of the cutting edge insert rigidly joined to an inner surface of the shaft tip, the cutting edge insert formed of a second metal, the cutting edge insert being fluted and sharpened to form a cutting edge for woodturning, wherein the second metal is different from the first metal, and wherein the second metal is more wear-resistant than the first metal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and related methods for facilitating the application of a cutting tool to a work-piece rotating on the axis of a lathe.

Abstract: A negative rake scraper with a cutting blade and a cutting blade housing assembly that securely houses the cutting blade such that the blade can extend, retract, and be easily removed from the housing. The housing and the blade may have coplanar bottom and/or top surfaces providing reduced vibration and uninhibited movement of the tool across a tool rest. The cutting blade and housing may be removably attached to a vibration-dampening bolster that can be removably attached to handles of various dimensions.

Abstract: A hand-held cutting tool for use in cutting a turning timber workpiece, the cutting tool including a handle end, a tool shank having a width and a height wherein the width is greater than the height, and a curved neck that includes a cutting head. The curved neck is integral to the tool shank and has a width and a height wherein the height is greater than the width. The tool shank defines a tool rest portion having a planar surface. The cutting head includes a top surface that is coplanar to the tool rest portion and defines a centrally disposed threaded bore for threadably receiving a replaceable carbide cutter. The cutting head and a length of the tool shank extend parallel to each other and parallel to a longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A woodworking hand tool, particularly for use in woodturning, comprises a shaft like handle provided at one end with a metallic cutting edge, and also with a flat along at least part of its length for engagement, in use, with a tool rest of a lathe or other machine, for stability and wherein the cutting edge is carried on, or by an adaptor that is rotationally adjustable with respect to the handle between at least two operational positions by the user, depending on the cutting action required.

Abstract: This parting tool is compromised of a cutting blade with indexed depth markings allowing the depth of the cut to measured from the blade and a cutting blade housing that secures the blade such that the blade can extend, retract, and be easily removed from the housing. The housing and the blade have a coplanar bottom surface providing for reduced vibration and uninhibited movement of the tool across a tool rest. The blade and housing are secured in a vibration dampening bolster that can be removably attached to handles of various dimensions.

Abstract: A woodturning tool according to embodiments of the present invention includes a shaft with a shaft tip, wherein the shaft tip is made of a first metal, and a cutting edge insert, at least a portion of an outer surface of the cutting edge insert rigidly joined to an inner surface of the shaft tip, the cutting edge insert formed of a second metal, the cutting edge insert being fluted and sharpened to form a cutting edge for woodturning, wherein the second metal is different from the first metal, and wherein the second metal is more wear-resistant than the first metal.

Abstract: A hand-held cutting tool for use in cutting a turning timber workpiece, the cutting tool including a handle end, a tool shank having a width and a height wherein the width is greater than the height, and a curved neck that includes a cutting head. The curved neck is integral to the tool shank and has a width and a height wherein the height is greater than the width. The tool shank defines a tool rest portion having a planar surface. The cutting head includes a top surface that is coplanar to the tool rest portion and defines a centrally disposed threaded bore for threadably receiving a replaceable carbide cutter. The cutting head and a length of the tool shank extend parallel to each other and parallel to a longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A way of making small, fragile, decorative handles on a lathe is disclosed along with tools for gluing pen-tubes into these handles is shown. Use of these tools and methods of use allows wood turners to avoid excessive rework and mess associated with the gluing process of making pen blanks while assuring better product due to more complete and uniform distribution of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A woodturning tool for creating containers has a first rigid arm, and a second rigid arm. The first rigid arm has two ends with a cutting blade at the first end. The second rigid arm has two ends with a guiding device at the first end. The cutting blade and the guiding device are operatively aligned. The first and second rigid arms are adapted to move relative to one another.

Abstract: A cutting tool piece is provided including a rear portion and a lead portion, the lead portion including a front section having an upper side angled downwardly and forwardly and a lower side angled upwardly and forwardly to form a transverse lead cutting edge. The rear portion includes a hole to secure the tool piece to a cutting tool and transverse cutting edges extending outwardly from side walls of the front section. A system is also described for cutting a bowl by coring out an interior portion of a wood block by applying the cutting tool which is curved and rotatably mounted to a post. Its lead end with the tool piece attached creates a circular groove. The cutting tool is advanced on a path which curves toward the central axis of the lathe.

Abstract: A concentric coaxial cutting machine which cuts cylinders, cylindroids or cones using a chain saw from a single larger object such as a wood tree trunk, a block of ice or a block of plastic.

Abstract: A cutting tool piece is provided including a rear portion and a lead portion, the lead portion including a front section having an upper side angled downwardly and forwardly and a lower side angled upwardly and forwardly to form a transverse lead cutting edge. The rear portion includes a hole to secure the tool piece to a cutting tool and transverse cutting edges extending outwardly from side walls of the front section. A system is also described for cutting a bowl by coring out an interior portion of a wood block by applying the cutting tool which is curved and rotatably mounted to a post. Its lead end with the tool piece attached creates a circular groove. The cutting tool is advanced on a path which curves toward the central axis of the lathe.

Abstract: A wood turning tool has an elongated handle with an end and a blade mounted to that end. The blade is formed as a plow with top and bottom surfaces and a working edge extending between those surfaces and having an apex. The working edge has an undercut ground bevel forming with the blade top surface a first cutting edge on one side of the apex and an overcut ground bevel forming with the blade bottom surface a second cutting edge on the other side of said apex, each bevel having a selected bevel angle.

Abstract: A cutting tool for cutting a work piece and catching debris during turning operations is described herein. The cutting tool comprises a tubular cutting member having first and second ends, the first end having a sharpened edge, and a debris receiving means connected to the second end. The tubular cutting member may have a number of different cross-sections providing a number of different cutting tool configurations for use in turning operations. The debris receiving means may further include a flexible hose having a first hose end and a second hose end, wherein the first hose end is connected to the second end of said tubular cutting member. The hose may be connected to a vacuum source to more effectively collect debris generated during turning operations. The tubular cutting member could be made in a range of sizes from one quarter inch to two inches in diameter, with a nominal tube length of from three inches to twenty inches, or even larger where needed.

Abstract: One preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a wood turning tool comprising a handle portion (1) and a cutting portion (2). The cutting portion comprises a blade (3) which has closed curve cutting edges. The tool comprises a deflector (14) for preventing the cutting portion from becoming blocked by wood shavings. The tool also comprises a blade cover (11) which can move across the blade (3) to regulate the cutting capacity of the tool. A threaded cylindrical member (12) can be manually operated to reversibly move the blade cover (11) across the blade (3).

Abstract: A wood turning tool having first and second cutting edges and which is suitable for carving many different configurations of recesses from wood. The tool has a shank portion and a cutting head portion, the cutting head portion having first and second arcuate segments, the first and second arcuate segments generally lie in different planes, the cutting edges being located adjacent the point of merger of the first and second arcuate segments.

Abstract: A woodturning scraper burnisher and method of burnishing woodturning scrapers. The burnisher is a cast aluminum carrier having a substantially flat face penetrated by three unequally spaced holes into which a conical fulcrum pin and burnishing rod having a protruding truncated conical surface are slip fit. With the carrier fixed in place on a work surface, the underside of a turning scraper is pressed against the face of the carrier while a side of the scraper is positioned against the fulcrum pin and the scraper bevel is forced against and slid relative to the conical surface of the burnishing rod to form a "hook" on the working edge or arris of the scraper.

Abstract: A shaft tapering device having a body block with a transverse borehole through which the shaft to be tapered is introduced. A recess in the top of the body block intersects the borehole, forming an aperture into which a cutting blade extends substantially tangential to the curvature of the borehole. A cradle attached to the body block includes a pair of parallel wing-like members spaced apart by spreaders at each end of the wings, which are pivotably mounted to the body block. Each wing has a notch formed in the upper edge thereof that is semicircular in the deepest part and on pivoting the wings the deepest part of the notches can be substantially aligned with the borehole.

Abstract: A lathe tool and toolrest assembly is disclosed in which a cutting blade is attached across one end of a blade mounting shaft, which shaft may be rotated and/or slid lengthways with respect to the sleeve portion of a toolrest comprising a T-bar. A handle is attached to the other end of the blade mounting shaft for manipulating the tool. The tool may be used to remove a cylindrical core from a workpiece mounted on the lathe, or successively smaller cores so as to produce a set of nesting bowls. A set of blade attachments is also provided to hollow out a cylindrical core through a narrow opening in a workpiece. A frusto-conical core may be removed from a workpiece in conjunction with a double T-bar toolrest which serves as a universal joint when manipulating the tool.

Abstract: A lathe tool includes a stiff shank and handle portion and, adjustably extending forward from the shank, cantilever fashion, an elongated resilient blade. The combination is configured and disposed on a tool rest so that, when the tip of the blade engages a downwardly moving surface of a workpiece, a vibration or chatter of the blade results and produces a three dimensional textured pattern on the workpiece. Pattern and texture may be selectively varied by adjusting the unsupported length of the blade (to control its frequency of vibration), by changing speed of rotation of the workpiece, by changing pressure of the tool blade on the workpiece, and by lateral and rotational manipulation of the tool.

Abstract: A stabilizer is provided for attachment to the generally flat bar of a wood turning tool. The stabilizer comprises a generally cylindrical sleeve having a central axially extending slot sized to receive the flat bar of the tool. The tool and stabilizer combination is rotatably supported on a tool rest associated with a lathe, such that the combination contacts the tool rest at a point that is vertically aligned with any point along the cutting blade of the cutting tool, substantially eliminating any rotational torque that could otherwise be generated as the cutting tool is moved into cutting engagement with the turning wood.

Abstract: A system of hand-held lathe tool assemblies especially for executing large scale deep and/or hollow work efficiently and rapidly while minimizing operator fatigue. Tool working portions may be integral with their carriers or holders or may be selectively connected to them by means of a conventional chuck or collet. The butt portions of very long lathe tool assemblies permit the turner to apply forewarm and/or upper body to the tool and gain sufficient leverage to work comfortably and hence with enhanced control while performing large scale work with tool reaches from rest to tool cutting point as high as 36 inches in length. A "slicer" tool facilitates separation (and conservation) of large volumes of material without comminution in the rough shaping stages of work. Other tool forms are disclosed.

Abstract: A hand held woodturning tool for cutting a turning timber workpiece. The tool has a long straight rod-like, tool shank and, a cutting head at one end of the tool shank and rigid with the tool shank. A hole is formed within the cutting head and has an end opening. The end opening has a periphery which is of continuous extent about the opening and which convexly arcs along part of the periphery, and an arcuate sharp cutting edge extends in a flat plane along a substantial section of the arcuate periphery part. An outer surface of the cutting head adjacent the periphery extends perpendicular to the plane containing the cutting edge and an inner surface converges toward the outer surface to form the sharp cutting edge. The tool is hand held and presented to a turning timber workpiece so that the outer surface of the cutting head adjacent the periphery rubs on a surface of the workpiece and the cutting edge engages the workpiece surface in a cutting action.

Abstract: A duplicating system, especially for use with a multipurpose woodworking machine capable of performing lathe turning operations. The system includes a support table, a carriage adapted to be slidably mounted on the machine, and a locking rack and pinion for raising and lowering the table relative to the carriage. A tool support is positioned on the table and includes a base having a low friction pad for engaging the table top, a follower for contacting a pattern, and a multi-edge cutting tool rotatably mounted on a tool rod for engaging a workpiece. An insert guide is mounted on the tool rod to hold the cutting tool in position. The base has a set screw which engages a circumferential groove in the shank of the tool rod so that the cutting tool can be quickly and accurately positioned relative to the follower.

Abstract: A copy lathe is provided with template supports projecting from both head stock and tail stock which support a template above the bed, and clamp securing the the template to the support means, there being provided a tool holder having a follower guide thereon which extends vertically upwardly from a base, the toe of the base however extending forwardly beyond the follower guide and beneath the template, the tool holder having a tool locked thereinto with the cutting edge of the tool vertically above the follower.

Abstract: A duplicator attachment for a woodturning lathe which provides the same freedom and control of the cutting action as in normal, freehand, turning operations, and enables duplication of inside contours, and even bowls. The duplicator also enables the pattern to be supported on the same vertical center as the workpiece and above the workpiece, rather than below or to the side of the workpiece, thereby permitting the full swing of the lathe to be used. The duplicator attachment provides a carriage to bring the cutting tool and a tracer, respectively, against the workpiece and pattern. The carriage has three sections which provide for movement of the cutting tool and tracer longitudinally along the center line of the lathe, laterally perpendicular to the center line of the lathe, and rotationally about an axis mutually perpendicular to the directions of the lateral and longitudinal movements.

Abstract: An adjustable Violin Peg and Dowel Shaving Device capable of shaving a tapered or non-tapered peg or dowel from a size substantially that of a full size cello peg down to almost the size of a toothpick with only one adjustment. The device comprises two guide bolts each extending along an axis through bores in two substantially rectangular blocks, the first block being secured to the guide bolts and having a V-shaped groove in one side facing the second block, and whereby the second block is movable along said guide bolts having a taper adjusting cutterblade mounted thereon. Two adjusting nuts threadedly received by said guide bolt ends rotatably advance said movable block toward said V-shaped groove which accommodates a peg or dowel for shaving.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hand-held tool for accurately forming the spindle diameter of a wooden workpiece turning on a lathe. The tool has an extending bar, adapted to be positioned under the turning workpiece and a plate to which the bar is clamped, the spacing between the bar and plate being adjustable. One portion of the plate carries an elongated handle, the opposed portion of the plate having a sharpened transverse edge which is fed into the turning workpiece as the bar underlies the lathe mounted workpiece. The dowel end of the workpiece is thus reduced to the desired diameter, equal to the spacing between the bar and the sharpened edge of the plate.

Abstract: A tool for use in wood lathes which comprises a blade formed into a U shape with one edge of the closed end of the U forming the cutting edge. The tool includes suitable depth guards and a chip reflector to provide for safe and depth regulated cutting that leaves a smooth surface on the wood.

Abstract: A disc body portion is grooved diametrically in one end face to receive differently profiled spindle turning bits and the body portion has a central axial threaded bore to accept a bolt serving as a temporary handle to hold the cutting bits in contact with a grinding wheel to sharpen them. The unitized disc body portion and bits are held clampingly during use between two body members of a bar-like rockable wood lathe cutting tool with the threaded securing rod of such tool passing through the threaded bore of the disc body portion.

Abstract: A home workshop wood lathe mounted on a flat bed includes a pair of elongated members having horizontal surfaces which extend along opposite sides of and slightly above the lathe ways and are spaced to permit a tail stock to slide along the ways. Brackets for mounting a template or turned article to be duplicated are adjustable along the elongated members. A tool holder having a long flat base spanning the spaced horizontal surfaces is freely slidable thereon. An upstanding tool post near one end of the long base, a pair of upstanding follower pins spaced longitudinally on opposite sides of and closely adjacent the tool post, and a pair of handles arranged for selective attachment to the base on one side or the other of the tool post adapt the tool holder to axial or face plate turning operations and a conveniently detachable plate overlying the spaced horizontal surfaces provides a continuous surface when face plate turning.

Abstract: A hand mobile wood turning tool for the craftsman or hobbyist having a versatile and readily adjustable cutter which when used with a corresponding lathe, work table, and optional tracer guide will provide a great deal of cutting variation and ease of pattern duplication with an optimum smooth cut of the stock wooden workpiece without tearing the wood. The preferred embodiment gives the tool operator complete and safe control of the tool along with a self-wiping base to preclude hopping of the tool or other interference with normal tool operations. The tool rests on a work table and is freely movable thereon in all directions.

Abstract: A cutter for cutting wood is adjustably mounted in a handle and extends beyond the handle at a first end of the handle. A cutter positioning device in the handle is coupled to the cutter in the handle and has a manually operable part extending from a second opposite end of the handle for selectively positioning the cutter relative to the first end of the handle. A gage for maintaining a selected space between the cutter and a workpiece is adjustably mounted in the handle at the first end thereof. A diverting device in the handle diverts wood particles cut from a workpiece by the cutter to a side of the handle.

Abstract: A cutting tool for wood turning lathes comprises a unitized elongated bar-like assembly which is operated in a vertical plane without the need for the customary tool rest. Control and safety are enhanced. The cutting tool has an adjustable rocker foot at its lower end enabling the height of the tool cutting bits to be adjusted relative to the turning work. A bit holder containing plural circumferentially spaced bits is locked removably between two body members and it is merely necessary to rotate the cutting tool on its longitudinal axis for bringing a new bit into engagement with the work.

Abstract: A shield element for deflecting chips and the like in which the shield element is in the form of a transparent, preferably, plastic member and, preferably, concave toward the source of chips and is adapted for mounting directly on the tool taking the chips.