Making Screw Threads In Wood

Fred Holder

Reviewed by:

Paul Womack

Summary: One man's journey through existing information, with very little new.

Long Version:

Well, I guess we're all into gizmosity; wooden threads have a high gizmosity factor (hey! I can make clamps, and ajusters and tapestry stretchers and all kinds of cool stuff) and gadgets for *making* such threads are even more gizmoid.

The initial chapters give an exposition on 2 basic hand techniques; essentially a transcription of St Roy's material (for hand cutting big threads) and "practical blacksmithing" for making a tap and it's matching screw box.

He then moves top write up some commercial lathe jigs; this section is somewhere between a reprint of the manuals that come with the jigs and an extended magazine style review of the jigs.

He then moves on to discuss cutting threads on a lathe using hand chasers. This is clearly the part that interests him most. Sadly, it appears that sometime near the end of his personal learning process he fond that there was a pre-existing video by Dennis White, and a book by James Lukin that pretty much already documented what he'd learnt.

The last section of the book is few basic projects that use wooden screw threads.

In short, this book would make a decent USENET post on techniques and references, but isn't worth buying as your primary source on wooden threads.