Hunter Tool System
Accu-Slice is now an authorized dealer for the Hunter Carbide tools for woodturning. After using these tools for several years in turning our projects shown in our YouTube Videos we can recommend these woodturning tools to our customers. The Hunter Tool uses a very fine grain of carbide specifically engineered to meet the sharp tooling requirements demanded by the woodturning community. Using the Hunter Taper Tool to turn the Micro Dizzy Bowl
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The Hunter Carbide WoodTurning Tools are available in four unique product categories of wood turning tools as listed above for both the Hobby and Professional Wood Turner.
The Hunter Carbide is a nano-grain structure of carbide manufactured to provide an extremely sharp carbide tool cutter. Tool life is 25 – 100 times your expectations vs high quality HSS. All Hunter Carbide tools are manufactured in America to high quality standards. The Hunter Carbide Woodturning Cutters are designed to cut the wood and not scrape the wood.
The Hunter Carbide Wood Turning cutters are a productive method to turn wood, especially in hollowing and segmented woodturning operations. The Hunter Carbide Woodturning Tools are sharpened and ready to use. There is no grinding or lapping of the Hunter Cutters. The tools are proficient at cutting the hardest piece of maple you have in your shop and even cutting on end grain. They are used by professional woodturners to turn pens, boxes, bowls, platters or hollow forms to the vast variety of wood turned forms. The Hunter Wood Turning cutter excels at rough hollowing cuts to fine finish cuts ready for sanding. The tools excel at hollowing end grain and easily turn the transition area from a box bottom to the sides of an end grain box.
Features of the Hunter Carbide Tools
· The carbide cutter will last up to 100 times longer than quality HSS
· Replaceable Carbide tips
· When dull simply rotate the cutter or replace with t new tip
· Can achieve the best in finish cuts to help eliminate or reduce sanding operations
· Proficient rough turning, finish turning and segmented wood tuning
· Tools are available from Accu-Slice without handles
The Hunter Carbide is a nano-grain structure of carbide manufactured to provide an extremely sharp carbide tool cutter. Tool life is 25 – 100 times your expectations vs high quality HSS. All Hunter Carbide tools are manufactured in America to high quality standards. The Hunter Carbide Woodturning Cutters are designed to cut the wood and not scrape the wood.
The Hunter Carbide Wood Turning cutters are a productive method to turn wood, especially in hollowing and segmented woodturning operations. The Hunter Carbide Woodturning Tools are sharpened and ready to use. There is no grinding or lapping of the Hunter Cutters. The tools are proficient at cutting the hardest piece of maple you have in your shop and even cutting on end grain. They are used by professional woodturners to turn pens, boxes, bowls, platters or hollow forms to the vast variety of wood turned forms. The Hunter Wood Turning cutter excels at rough hollowing cuts to fine finish cuts ready for sanding. The tools excel at hollowing end grain and easily turn the transition area from a box bottom to the sides of an end grain box.
Features of the Hunter Carbide Tools
· The carbide cutter will last up to 100 times longer than quality HSS
· Replaceable Carbide tips
· When dull simply rotate the cutter or replace with t new tip
· Can achieve the best in finish cuts to help eliminate or reduce sanding operations
· Proficient rough turning, finish turning and segmented wood tuning
· Tools are available from Accu-Slice without handles
Tapered Tool Set # 2 with Accu-Slice Custom Designed Handles
Small Projects
Looking for tools to use on small spindle turnings such as pens, bottle stoppers or other small projects? Hunter Tools offers two good choices; the #1 Hercules and the #1 Osprey. New turners will find the #1 Hercules easy to use as it is built on a 3/8” square shank which helps control the razor sharp carbide cutter. The #1 Osprey is a 3/8” round shank tool and works just like a traditional gouge. Both tools allow the user to turn cleanly cut coves, beads, roughing cuts or finish cuts.
Looking for tools to use on small spindle turnings such as pens, bottle stoppers or other small projects? Hunter Tools offers two good choices; the #1 Hercules and the #1 Osprey. New turners will find the #1 Hercules easy to use as it is built on a 3/8” square shank which helps control the razor sharp carbide cutter. The #1 Osprey is a 3/8” round shank tool and works just like a traditional gouge. Both tools allow the user to turn cleanly cut coves, beads, roughing cuts or finish cuts.
Small Hollowed Items
If you like to turn small hollow forms such as hollow globe Christmas ornaments, boxes, ort bowls or other small hollowed items the #1 Taper 3-Piece Set is an excellent choice. The #1 Taper Straight Tool can open up a hollow form to provide room for the swan neck #1 Taper Shoulder Tool or the #1 Taper C-hook tool. The #1 Taper shoulder tool allows controlled access to the area around the opening under the shoulder of a hollow form. The #1 Taper C-hook tool cleans up the belly of small hollow forms. Once the swan neck tools have done their jobs the #1 Taper straight tool can clean up the bottom and thin that area.
Larger Projects with Grain
For larger projects involving side grain and face grain such as bowls and platters the Hunter #2 Osprey and the #3 Hercules are great choices. The #3 Hercules can be used to rough down the gnarliest burls and the hardest blanks. Built on a 5/8” square shank the #3 Hercules has the mass and the strength to control the downward shocks and interruption of roughing cuts yet will leave a finish approaching finish quality. The #3 Hercules is ideal for rough turning green wood and finish cuts on seasoned wood. The #2 Osprey operates like a gouge with a razor sharp carbide tip. Just like a gouge the Osprey can be rotated on its round shaft to its “sweet spot” and peel off fine shavings, forming coves and beads and smoothing flat surfaces with ease.
Hollow Forms
For boxes, bowls with undercut rims, vases and other hollow forms the long and strong Hunter Badger #5
Straight and Swan Neck Tools are the best choices. Both tools are fabricated on round 5/8” shafts with tapers near the cutting edge where 3/8” round carbide cutters do the work. The Badger #5 Straight tool can hollow to the user’s desired depth and open up the form to provide room for the Badger #5 Swan neck. The Badger swan neck has the perfect shape to reach under the rim of boxes or hollow forms for difficult under cuts. The strength of the shaft on both tools helps to eliminate chatter which results in cleaner cuts and less sanding.
Badger Turning Tools
The Badger Series of tools are real problem solvers. Badger # 5 Straight Tool - The Badger Straight Tool was designed for the box makers and the turners who like to work on smaller but deep vessels. Badger # 5 Full Swan Neck Tool - This tool is especially useful for turning the undercut areas in boxes and the insides of hollow forms. |
Osprey Tools
The Osprey may be the last gouge you ever need- available in 2 sizes. The 1/2" Round Shank Osprey - This is a popular too for woodturners that do segmented work. The 3/8" Round Shank Osprey - The Osprey is a great tool for those fine finish cuts. Video - #1 Osprey Tool Video - #2 Osprey Tool |
Taper Tools
These tools are ideal for final finish form and shaping. Available individually or as a set. Small Tapered Straight Tool - This tool is often a “go to” tool used by many woodturners for both outside and inside turning. Small Tapered Shoulder Tool - This tool is sometimes called the Back tool and is perfect for turning under the shoulder of a small diameter turning such as a Christmas ornament globe. Small Tapered C Hook Tool - This tool is used for undercut areas or in the “Belly area” of a hollow form or globe. Video - #1 Tapered Hook Tool Video - # 1 Tapered Shoulder Tool |
Hercules Tool The square shank Hercules Tools are robust and hard working tools for heavy duty outside and inside diameter turning of bowls or platters. #3 Hercules Tool - The Hercules Tool was designed for the first cuts on a new piece. Let this hard working 5/8” Shank Hercules takes all of the shock and interruption. #1 Hercules Tool - The 3/8” Square Shank Hercules is intended to be used on smaller and more delicate turnings like pens, bottle stoppers and boxes. Video #1 Hercules Tool Video #3 Hercules Tool |
Cutter Rotation, Cutter Replacement, Safety Guidelines
Index or rotate the Hunter Tool Cutter
Replacing Hunter Tool Cutter with a new cutter:
General Maintenance
Safety Guidelines:
Index or rotate the Hunter Tool Cutter
- Clean out the screw socket and loosen the torx screw
- Rotate the cutter to another section of the insert.
- Tighten the torx screw with the flag style torx wrench
- Visually inspect the tool to make sure the cutter is firmly seated in the pocket
Replacing Hunter Tool Cutter with a new cutter:
- Clean out the screw socket and remove the torx screw. Be careful as Murphy’s Law states: The screw will fall into the woodchips and you will not be able to find it.
- Remove the old cutter, inspect and clean the pocket of the bar to remove any chips or shavings.
- Lightly lubricate the screw, place the new cutter in the bar and while firmly holding the cutter seated in the bar, tighten the torx screw to secure the cutter. It is recom-mended to use the flag style torx wrench and to tighten to finger tight.
- Visually inspect the tool to make sure the cutter is firmly seated in the pocket.
General Maintenance
- It is recommended to do a random rotation of the cutter every time the tool is used.
- Storage is important. Like all high quality tools, place the tool in the storage rack when not in use.
- Clean out the socket of the screw with a pick, safety pin, or paper clip so the torx wrench will fully seat in the screw.
- Lightly grease or lubricate screw threads often and every time you turn wet wood.
- Do not over tighten the screw. Finger tight is all that is needed. The use of the flag style torx wrench provided is all of the tightness needed.
- Visually inspect the tool to make sure the cutter is firmly seated in the pocket.
Safety Guidelines:
- Read the application guides before using the tools.
- Set the tool rest height to the top of cutter to the centerline of the lathe.
- Read and understand your lathe owner’s manual.
- As with all tools, do not force the tool … give it time to cut.
- It is recommended to do a random rotation of the cutter each time the tool is used.
- Lightly grease or lubricate screw threads often and every time you turn wet wood.
- Wear safe clothing and eye / face protection.
Cutter / Torx Specs
Many woodturners like to make their own tools. For reference, this chart includes cutter sizes, specific screws, torx wrenches, and thread specifications for the screw thread.
It is recommended that the specific torx screws are used with the cutters. The cutter inside diameter has a taper which matches the taper on the screw. This helps with secure lock up of the cutter.
Many woodturners like to make their own tools. For reference, this chart includes cutter sizes, specific screws, torx wrenches, and thread specifications for the screw thread.
It is recommended that the specific torx screws are used with the cutters. The cutter inside diameter has a taper which matches the taper on the screw. This helps with secure lock up of the cutter.
Cutter Number |
Cutter Diameter Metric |
Cutter Diameter Inch |
Cutter Diameter Fraction |
Hunter Screw Number |
Screw Threads or Tap Size |
Torx Wrench |
#1 |
6 mm |
0.236" |
15/64" |
#1 |
M2.5-0.45 |
T-9 |
#2 |
8 mm |
0.315" |
5/16" |
#2 |
M3-.5 |
T-9 |
#3/#5 |
10 mm |
0.394" |
3/8" |
#3/#4/#5 |
M4-.7 |
T-15 |
#4 |
12 mm |
0.472" |
1/2" |
#3/#4/#5 |
M4-.7 |
T-15 |