Parting Tool

 

I have an old blade off my old table saw, on which are several chipped or broken teeth. It's not much use as a saw blade any more for that reason, but I could extract some use from it by chopping out a bar with one good tooth, and mounting it in a handle for use as a thin parting tool for the lathe.

This will give me a kerf of a bit less than 3mm, compared with about 6mm for any of my other parting tools. The carbide tooth should last for a good long time too, but if need be I can still resharpen it with a diamond hone.