I’ve renamed this from it’s original LJ title of ”Christmas Present... Past (wooden thread)”, posted on Jan 27,2020 as this Grinch
doesn’t give away Chrissy presents.
The post was as a prelude to doing a review of the Beall Wood Threader and my lathe’s big dowel maker… neither of which got off the ground over there. I though both got enough coverage in "this article" and adding to that some grouches' objection to the length of my posts, I let it slip… however, this time around I have been known to change what little is left of my mind and maybe post them later.
majuvla's (aka. Ivan, probably through the compliments of the Hrvatska policija) project of some paper draped, upright erections reminded me of this little bereft project… thanks maj'.
Who says I don't make Christmas presents for friends... which by the way were never reciprocated (but who's keeping a score card)…,
They do as these were the last I made 3 years ago,
.... and me, since no-one has paid me for them. Consequently I've decided to no longer keep the secret that its NOT Santa who gives out presents and am quite complacent in heralding that those cheap skates got them from me, as there's no such thing as a freebie Santa.
Let's not delve on those free loaders any more and concentrate on how the holders were made.
They all started off as a 30mm x 30mm lamination of 19mm Merbau decking, roughly rounded on the router table,
Set up my shop-made lathe's big dowel maker,
and un-roughened the roughly-round,
(apologies for the focus) and finished up with a no longer square, 1" dia. dowel (LHS),
Tritoned the dowel maker and prepared for the cranking,
Long threaded one end,
After short threading the other end, it was mounted on the lathe for some oiling,
the slow speed of the lathe (50 RMPs) made rubbing oil into the individual threads with a rag quite easy. The lathe's reverse speed ensured a good coating of oil. Didn't oil the full long thread as it was destined to be trimmed,
The nuts (above) were drawn using the following purchased template ($6 US),
I then made my own template using CorelDraw and my Laser for $8…
the original template ($6) for idea/specifications and $2 for the material… go figure the economy… now I have two templates for $14… lucky I have two hands!
Two pieces of merbau were laminated to make the nuts and base. For the base, the round over profile of the merbau planks was used to accentuate the middle seam. It was then tapped with a Beall 1" tapping tool, using burnishing oil as lubricant,
and sanded,
All got a good couple of coats of tung oil after cutting the long threaded end to length,
and eventually assembled
I did manage to keep one, as the missus succumbed to paying the asking "Santa fee",
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
That high speed thread cutting is the way to go for wood. I have seen them but I now use a Dremel in my wood lathe and can cut any shape or pitch that way. You have a real nice set up there with the Beall system!!
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
We have a somewhat similar upright holder with a screw-on top nut and a side mounted dowel to keep the roll from unspooling.
I hate the thing, mainly because I'm always the one who has to refill it. The screw top takes about 30 turns to spin off and the dowel always makes the first 30' or so impossible to pull off without snagging and tearing the paper into tiny pieces. Would anyone tolerate that with bog paper I ask? Noooo!
Need to make a proper one, bearing base, short one turn top , and no frickin' dowel!
Is yours wood? If metal, you can pimp it out with a Rockler Slip Knob or a button nut, slip on and 1 or two twists and its locked. Did a review over at LJ... should bring across here. Also a video (on the slip nuts),
I had side dowels... abandoned after the 1st build.
One of my "female giftees" had the same issue as you about too many turns... so I cut the protruding threads off. Now she only has to turn about 4 times.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
