Are these the ones Mathew?

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If so I would suggest that a HSS set may be better bet.

In any case the third one down looks like a single point threading tool and the forth one is a boring bar. Some of the others are a bit more difficult to indentify. The top one looks similar to a cranked knife tool for turning. The second one could be a left hand knife tool and the fifth one could be used for chamfering. I'm sure others will have some ideas!

Top – Right hand turning tool used to cut along teh length of teh work to reduce diameter

2nd – Parting tool viewed from the side used to part of work

3rd – threading tool

4th Boring tool for internal holes

5th Roughing or chamfer tool, to take larger cuts off the dia or add a small chamfer to break corners

Bottom – Could be used as a lefthand or facing tool to face off the end of work

You will either have to get a small diamond slip to sharpen or a green grit wheel for a bench grinder

2 is probably a parting off tool. 5 and 6 are left and right had turning tools. 1 may be a finishing tool or I may have mixed up 1 and 5. The slope on the top of the tool will always go away from the direction of the cut but there is little or none on this style of tool. They are usually ground up for use on cast iron but can be used on all materials.

You can use these but resharpening needs a green grit wheel. Some use diamond but the green grit wheels work well on ordinary off hand grinders – they do with 8" wheels anyway.

Before anyone suggests anything it would be good idea to know what lathe you are using and the tool height it needs in the holder. The tools have to be packed up so that the tip is one just slightly below the centre line of the lathe. Some sizes of tool may cause you problems in this respect.

John

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Repeat after me

" I must not be tempted to buy sets of tools"

"I must not be tempted to buy sets of tools"

Ditto

one hundred times

However there is this really nice set of dri…….. WHAT DID I TELL YOU go back to the beginning.

Once you've got some lathe time under your belt Mathew have a look at one of these.

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It may seem expensive but it uses easily ground HSS and does not require any shims to set it on centre height. It can be used to both turn and face without moving the tool. I have several of these both bought and home made and do most of my turning with them.

Bazyle is entirely right really but people do buy sets. I used to buy this type of tool pretty regularly in the shape I wanted. There are other shapes but the nose rad on them tends to be rather large for smaller lathes.

In many ways this general style is the most useful single tool and the rad doesn't look too large on this one. Some at this size will have much bigger rads on the end. They can be ok for finishing,

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Go up to Myford 7 size and the rad is likely to be a bit on the big size even for a myford.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if new lathes with ordinary tool posts came with a selection of packing. Finding suitable material must be a bit of a problem for beginners.

Edit – Looks like Chronos have the same shape in L and R hand. It is a shape that will be used unlike some in sets. They probably have a parting of tool to match. That can be used to square up shoulders removing the rad left by the V nose tool.

John

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Edited By Ajohnw on 02/04/2016 12:11:52

I reckon that's true but sometimes buyers realise that there isn't any need really for what they have bought. It's not too bad if some one buys HSS toolbits and knows what shapes will be needed but then you buy way too much hss. One pretty sensible HSS set I have used came off Peatol / Taig. Decent HSS too even though the basic toolbit isn't ground, just the cutting parts are.

John

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I would also add those tools often are quite blunt, i have the same set and will try to resharpen them with a silicon carbide wheel.

Michael W

Two or three years ago Bunnings had feeler gauge sets going for about $2 each. At least 1/2" thick, Chinese of course, and not reliably marked (i.e. indicated and actual thickness was different on several pieces), but their usefulness for all sorts of packing jobs was obvious. I bought a dozen sets, which should last for the foreseeable future.

Roger

Such defiance can never last.

Michael W