I am building a vise for my work bench and need to find a threaded wood rod and a nut for it, i dont want to make my own, were can i find one a piece about 3/4 but 1 foot?? i looked on the web and only find metal rod i want wood one bad..
2006-12-29 14:39:35 · 5 answers · asked by steve n 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Go to Lehman's. They sell Amish hand tools (they are located adjacent to an Amish community in Ohio). Contact them personally and ask them if they could help. You'll probably pay dearly for it, but they have personal contact with the Amish, so they could get you one.
If you did want to make your own, look for the 'Woodwrights Shop'. It's a show on PBS. The guy on there makes everything using 19th Century tools. He made threaded rods and nuts on one episode and showed how to make the tools that make them. Once you make the tool, you can make a thousand of them fairly quickly.
They are fairly easy to make. They are just taps and dies.
Oh, also check with the hippy-type timber framers (the ones that make post and beam with hand tools). If you challenge enough people, someone will do it for you. Also look on Ebay for really old clamps, the kind with the two wood blocks for jaws. They still make them today with metal screws, but really old ones had wood screws.
2006-12-29 14:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by normobrian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-05 17:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be difficult to find a pre-threaded piece of wood. I've never seen one, and I've seen most of the mainstream stuff.
The link below will show you a 3/4" wood tap and wood die. It's well made and costs $34.
I have one. They're also good for re-dieing broom handles, etc. when they loosen up, as well as making stools, clamps, etc.
2006-12-29 22:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by greebyc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Truth is, I've been a carpenter for almost 36 years, and I haven't found anything like this for less than 10's of thousands of dollars.
2016-05-02 08:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by wan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say check your local Major harware garden store they will probably piont you in the right direction Lowe's, Home Depot somewhere like that
2006-12-29 14:43:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋