Sharpening Handbook

Thread Chasing Tool Set

The cutters are sharpened to have a hollow grind on the top of the tool, behind the thread cutting area. This hollow grind is shown in an exaggerated picture below.

Side View
Showing (exaggerated) hollow grind

Woodworkers are knotty.

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The tool is then honed by rubbing a 150+ grit diamond file against the top of the tool. The area to be honed is shown in the pictures as the area marked red.

Outside Chaser

Inside Chaser

Left Hand Parting Tool

Information regarding Grindstones

More Information

Books & Papers

The method outlined for sharpening and honing thread chasing tools comes from Bill Jones, and are described in his books (both of which are very worthwhile reads):

There is a great article, Chasing Threads : Simple tools and a lot of practice makes perfect, showing how to use these tools is on the AAW web site.

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