Large Wood Screws *LINK*

Big Money

Jim in Burlington On

>Long before that day ever came I'd make my own. Roy Underhill has a program on doing just that. You can buy it off of PBS.

907 Euros for the 2" version! Yikes!

Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

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Local supplier

Andrew F in Australia

>Hi Peter,

Look in Australian Wood Review. The cabinetmaker from N. Qld should be able to cut them in Silver Ash for you (I can't remember his name.) Crows Ash is a better option, but not so common a timber

He regularly does large screws in his furniture - seen them in Bungendore and elsewhere.

Cheers,

Andrew

Frank Weisner 07 4632 3010

Andrew F in Australia

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Cheaper to get screws cut than buy the tap?

Andrew F in Australia

>is what I meant.

I've used the chinese 1.5" x 6 tpi and they work fine for a bench, but a few too many turns of the screw sometimes.

Re: 907 Euros for the 2" version! Yikes!

paul womack

>I think one could buy a metal work lathe with screw-cutting facilities, and a toolpost mounted router for less...

The lathe wouldn't need to be very special to hold the required tolerances.

BugBear

Cheaper Methods vs. Quality

Warren in Lancaster, PA

>There are cheaper methods to make wood screws but none will give the quality of a screwbox. I have a dogwood screw made in 1977 from the largest of the tools shown. The size (62 mm) is a little closer to 2 3/8 than the 2 1/2 listed. The threads are just unbelievably clean and crisp. There is no way a lathe or a router can make threads like this.

Youza! Considering...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>The dollar is at an all time low to the euro $0.7284 to 1 euro, I think I'd pass.

Re: Cheaper to get screws cut than buy the tap?

Peter Evans

>Thanks Andrew, I will look up AWR. I do not intend to buy one of these for myself, but rather look to an acquisition by the Tool Group for workshop purposes. For this we need a reliable and robust tool.

I might consider one of the smaller ones for thread cuttng for tapestry frames - the cheap Chinese ones do not seem to work well (at least the one I have seems to defy anyone to get it to cut well). Take off the German VAT and the German tool cost is roughly twice that of a cheapie from Carbatec; that is good value if the German tools are high quality.

cheers

Peter

Re: Cheaper Methods vs. Quality

Peter Evans

>Thanks Warren, that was the feedback I was looking for. The cost is bracing though. Also no one suggested an alternative quality supplier.

Regards Peter

Re: Frank Weisner 07 4632 3010

dave brown

>I looked into getting some Frank Weisner screws but they were seriously expensive.

Re: 907 Euros for the 2" version! Yikes!

kees

>http://www.trendmachinery.co.uk/routerlathe/ discontinued :-(

Re: 907 Euros for the 2" version! Yikes!

Mark Harrison - Brisbane, Australia

>It still doesn't solve the problem of cutting the female thread, which is the hard part anyway.