Making Threads, was RE: [TheForge] Re: Vice repair

[Jeff P.]

Barking Crow wrote:

>Does anyone know what issue of the Anvil's Ring had the article on making
>threading taps for woodworkers?  I'd like to read it.  Thanks,  Jeff
>Valentine
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I just found the issue of The Anvil's Ring with the threading article... 
It's Volume 6, Number 5, from December 1978. The artical is on p. 9, 
"Forging a Screw". It's basically about what I described earlier, taking 
a 1/4" piece of square rod, folding it in half, and wrapping it around a 
larger rod. When you're done you have two helixes.

Improvements:
    Forge the threads into a half-round swage block that (more-or-less) 
matches the threads.
    If you don't have a welder, braze the threads onto the rod... Use 
some flux and copper or brass wire, line the wire along the joint with 
the threads, wrap the whole thing in a wad of clay (to prevent 
oxidation, push a little hole into the clay, and then stick the end into 
the forge.

(I'll get my web site back up and running RSN, and post some pictures. 
Jeesh, I do web stuff for a living, you'd think it wouldn't take so long...)