Malcolm Schweizer
08-05-2015, 10:41 AM
I want to make my own threaded wooden dowels for making clamps and/or a leg vise, and was on the Dieter Schmid site looking at theirs. WOW...those things are expensive!!! I went to eBay just to see what was there, hoping maybe someone would be selling a $1000 2" threading tool for $20 or something crazy like that. Well, that was not the case, but lo and behold, I found three of the kind of threading tools that Highland Woodworking sells for the price of what one normally sells for- all boxed like new!
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So, shameless gloat aside, I'm wondering will the 1" work for making some screw clamps? Small moxon vise? I am thinking that 1" would be too small unless I used lignum vitae, and I figure that would be too hard to thread with these. Any thoughts? Probably I'll make some toys for petra with these. It was one of those "too good to pass up" deals for which I will probably never really get my money's worth, but hey- now I will have them when I need them. :-)
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So, shameless gloat aside, I'm wondering will the 1" work for making some screw clamps? Small moxon vise? I am thinking that 1" would be too small unless I used lignum vitae, and I figure that would be too hard to thread with these. Any thoughts? Probably I'll make some toys for petra with these. It was one of those "too good to pass up" deals for which I will probably never really get my money's worth, but hey- now I will have them when I need them. :-)