wooden vice screw

[Phil Pascoe]

I've just been forwarded the question -

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Hi,

I am just getting into furniture making as a hobby and as one of my first projects I'd like to make a traditional English workbench. Ill also be making the face vice for the bench and want to source a wooden vice screw and nut. This latter point is the reason I am contacting you. I was wondering whether you would be able and interested to make a wooden vice screw (50-64 mm diameter and screw length roughly 19 inches) and corresponding nut?

The only wooden vice screws I am able to locate are often ancient and in a poor state of repair and the only ones I seem to be able to buy new are made in the USA!

Can anyone help?

 

[AES]

Don't know myself phil, but I seem to recall several posts about cutting wooden threads on here, including links to suitable "tap & die" suppliers.

Worth a search here?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I was forwarded the question as the the chap had asked someone from Cornwall Association of Woodturners for assistance. I have emailed him and told him I've posted the question, so hopefully he'll do his own reseach.

 

[ScaredyCat]

Would this sort of thing not work?


https://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-w ... it-ax21303 / https://www.fine-tools.com/gewind.html



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[Phil Pascoe]

It probably would. Whether the OP is prepared to upwards of a thousand Euros is debatable.

 

[ColeyS1]

I'd be interested to hear the outcome of this as it's something I researched a lot but gave up in the end.
I can't seem to post pictures anymore (via tapatalk) but I got over the issue buy using metal studding.

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[ColeyS1]

No way,pictures work again now !! I wonder if something readily available (perhaps wood or metal) might do the same thing. I picked up an adjustable height table from the charity shop that had a nice course thread. I was think I could scavenge parts from it for a similar purpose

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[ScaredyCat]

It probably would. Whether the OP is prepared to upwards of a thousand Euros is debatable.

They might have been a rich banker, you never know... how about

https://www.workshopaddict.com/forum/ti ... #post20426

 

[Beau]

He could make his own? https://www.toolpost.co.uk/pages/Turnin ... tting.html Not quite 50mm though

 

[HappyHacker]

If it helps here is a photo of the spindle of a leg vice on a bench acquired from my wife's uncle. It must be well over 70 years old if he got the bench new.

 

[xy mosian]

This may be of interest if only for the locality.
http://www.bealltool.com/products/threa ... reader.php
Sadly 1 1/2" seems to be the upper size limit.
I think it was Derek Cohen, of this parish, who got over the problem of cutting the female part by utilising a vartiation of Hero's method. It is not out of the question to carve the male part on the lathe. .
xy

 

[MusicMan]

I may be able to help but not till mid-July, when I shall have the time. I do now have the Beall kit for making screws and nuts in 3/4" and 1 1/2" sizes, and a supply of dowels but have not become familiar with them yet.

Keith

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks, Keith. I have pointed the person who asked in the beginning to this thread, so whether he wishes to follow it up is up to him. There is good plain screw 53 at the market for £40 so I expect he might go for that instead.

 

[Bm101]

You have a pm Phil.

 

[katellwood]

I could probably do it in 2 1/2 2tpi however currently no got timber of the dia required (might have some 80mm dia euro oak)

will post details of my setup to cut thread and the tap tomorrow for those interested

 

[katellwood]

found some old photo's of the setup

and cutting the thread

 

[AndyT]

I found a way to make large wooden threads and wrote it up here

an-alternative-way-to-cut-big-threads-in-wood-t78726.html

It should be copyable on many metalwork lathes.

 

[ED65]

I thought I remembered seeing something fairly recently about threading entirely by hand and I hunted it down, it's in Scott Landis's workbench book, pp122 & 123. For anyone who doesn't have access to the actual book here are the relevant pages:

The author of this segment is Richard Starr, and he's written a few times about means to hand-form threads in wood based on old methods.

 

[xy mosian]

Yes please!
xy

Sorry I missed page two and answered the last post on page one.
xy

 

[Inspector]

Years ago when my father wanted to make wood threads he tried the thread box and tap I had and didn't like it so he had me get a saw blade re-toothed with 60 degree teeth. Then he made jigs to fit the table saw and cut his threads that way. He even did a 4 1/2" diameter one using a "comb" he cut to pull the big dowel through. Then he hollowed the male thread to sit a die grinder with a wing cutter with 60 degree tips, making a powered tap. Here are some pictures of the blade and table saw jigs to illustrate. I don't have the powered tap anymore so can't show that. Note he didn't make jigs or tools to be prety, just functional.

Pete