Thread box build ideas

[bridger berdel]

I picked up a chinese wood tap of about 1-1/4 by 6 or 8 tpi at a junk shop for a couple of dollars. Sharpened up a bit it seems to cut a thread well enough, so I'm thinking to make a thread box to match it. Seems like since I can now make a threaded hole I should be able to add some loading taper and little sharp bits of steel and start cutting threads on dowells to match the threaded holes. It's not that I really need wooden nuts and bolts all that much, but it interests me. Of course, I want to have many conversations about it first and read a bunch of pages about it first. It's a galloot thing, ya know....

[Jim Koepke]

Try this episode of the Woodwright's Shop:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365015311/

jtk

[Tom M King]

Just like almost everything else, there are How-To youtube videos. I took the easy way out, and bought old Marples kits off ebay.

[Derek Cohen]

I used this video ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZmnGLpqAGI

.. to make this ...

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend_html_6f216e7f.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend_html_7a54bd14.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend.html

Regards from Perth

Derek