Tutorials

The Hunter Tool Cutters are an easy to use and productive method to turn wood. Let's chuck up the hardest piece of maple that you have in your workshop. Better yet, let's do some end grain work. Do you have a burl with some dirt in it? Perhaps there might be a small rock or two in the burl or should we turn some quartz filled material!!!

The Hunter Tool will cut just about everything that you want to throw at it. Once the tool dulls, just turn the edge to a new section of the tool. Once it wears out replace the tool tip. There is no grinding or lapping of the tool.

The Hunter Tool Cutters work best on closed grain woods. If you are working open grain woods many woodturners will use the Hunter Tool Cutter to turn the project down to size and then switch to conventional HSS tools to complete the fine finish cuts. Users of the Hunter Tool Cutter achieve desired size and finish results to prep for the final sanding operations.

- The following is the procedure to index or rotate the Hunter Tool Cutter:

  1. Loosen the torx screw.
  2. Rotate to an unused section of the insert.
  3. Tighten the torx screw with the flag style wrench.
  4. Visually inspect the cutter to make sure it is firmly seated in the pocket.
  5. You are ready to go. “Happy Turning”
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- The following is the procedure to index the Hunter Tool Cutter to a new cutter:

  • Loosen and remove the torx screw. Be careful, as Murphy's Law states: “The screw will fall into the wood chips and you will not be able to find it.”
  • Remove the cutter and inspect and clean the pocket of the bar to remove any chips or shavings.
  • Place the new cutter in the bar and while holding the cutter firmly seated in the pocket, tighten the torx screw to secure the cutter. It is recommended to use the flag style torx wrench.
  • Visually inspect the tool to make sure it is firmly seated in the pocket.
  • You are ready to go. “Happy Turning”

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 Ed Davidson Video - introducing Hunter Tool # 4 (click on the screen-shot below)
 

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John Lucas YouTube video - using Hunter tools (click on the white arrow in the screen-shot).

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    Another John Lucas video - using Hunter tools (click on the screen-shot)
     

     

 

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