Add Pizzazz With Hand Chased Threads : Is It Time to Try It?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- In "Add Pizzazz With Hand Chased Threads", Mike demonstrates the basics of hand thread chasing. He demonstrates the techniques to cutting internal and external threads. He discusses suitable woods and alternative materials for thread chasing.
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OK. Mike, you have convinced me. I need to get out of my comfort zone. I will buy, and try in the very near future. Thanks again Teacher.
Go for it!
you are so right. I turned a lidded box and hand chased the threads. 16 TPI. First time attempt. Bradford pear. I did put a little CA glue on. Worked. It had to be beginners luck. Tried another with pear wood, fail. Tried another fail. Tried another with hard maple. Failed. Ok so a friend let me make an aluminite cast. small round and I made threaded inserts. I watched you make inserts for urn. Well success. Point is it seems to me I am going to spend the money for that uranium wood one way or another Mike. LOL... one more test tomorrow. I saw a man chase threads in Mahogany using CA glue. I think I want to thank you for making me interested in chasing threads. HAHA. You are my woodturning encyclopedia.
Hand thread chasing is very Zen and a skill very few turners acquire. Keep at it!
Thanks for sharing Mike your videos are very inspirational keep turning stay safe👍👍👍👍
Thanks, will do!
Excellent tutorial Mike. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.
Thanks, you too!
Thanks - Excellent, informative, and entertaining video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My Sorby 16 TPI chasers were just delivered a couple of weeks ago. I can't wait to try them. I like the PVC practice idea.
Good luck!
What a helpful video ! Thanks Mike
Glad it was helpful! I will probably follow up with another one with more details and tips soon.
Thanks, Mike...that was a great demo!
Glad you liked it!
I nailed my first attempt in September 2019. Turned a box out of maple and made Alumilite inserts. Applied the inserts to the box and threaded away with the Carter and Son thread chaser. Everything worked great after a little fine tuning. Another post stroke therapy project in the books! 👍😁
Excellent. Thread chasing definitely takes you to a different place!
Thanks, Mike!
You're welcome!
Mike you've inspired me to chase some threads! Thanks. One question: do the tools wear eventually, and or need sharpening of some sort?
They are scrapers and do need occasional sharpening with a diamond hone.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I've just started thread chasing and enjoying the learning experience.
That's great!
Do you use the 16 tpi thread chaser?
I bought the Ashley Iles 16tpi unichaser mainly because it does both male & female threads and saves money buying two tools.
@@missteeturns I watched an old video on them. Looked but could not find anyone that sold it in the states. Does seem nice, one tool to do both.
Thanks, Mike; This was refreshingly different from other thread chasing videos, and my experience parallels many of your observations.16tpi seems a good place to start, and has wide application, and I, too, find the arm rest an unnecessary nuisance. Vaseline is my lubricant when necessary. In earlier days I could have done with an English version of your chart of woods and chasing speeds. African Blackwood is truly wonderful to chase, and European Sycamore works well, especially if pretreated with CA glue. For hand chasing I use an Ashley Iles Unichaser, as I see no point in having paired tools, and so built my own 12tpi version from a cut down good quality firmer chisel from the flea market. Your trick to first practise on a candle could prove valuable to some. Bernard.
We will talk about the arm rest in a future video. Not need for threaded collars for an urn but I find it helps when threading female threads for boxes.
I saw Sam Angelo talk about the Unichaser in one of his videos but I do not think Ashley Iles makes them any more. I could not find them on their website nor in their catalog on their website. No reference to their recess tool either.
A great video on thread chasing. I haven't got into it because I wasn't sure which thread to try. Then of course the wood, would it take a thread? Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful presentation! However there is much, much more very important details in the technique of thread chasing that has not been covered.
Yes, you are right. So much to cover and so little time. I will get into more detail in future thread chasing videos if there is enough interest.
You are absolutely correct, Mike and thank you. I struggled a lot before finally learned how to cut always a predictable threads, match the wood grain, match the line of opening etc., etc. Call me please if you want to get in touch 435-640-8650. Thank you. And I really liked the way you are presenting things. Vladimir
Would persimmon be a good choice?
You would think so because it is so hard, but I did not have success with it. May have to try again since it is in the ebony family and the only true ebony that grows in the USA.
Mike do the bigger threads work in softer domestic woods, don't really want to buy that expensive import stuff. Thanks for the lessons.
That is what Mike said.
No to cherry, soft maple or walnut. Yes to Pear, dogwood and osage orange. You can cut softer woods with a threading jig but it might be cheaper to buy exotics!
Don’t buy expensive wood. I can cut threads in any wood, pine, poplar, alder, etc and use 10tpi hand chasers in any diameter up to 4”. The trick is that you need to cut the side grain, not the end grain so the wood need to be segmented. Have just recently done demo locally...
@@natvlasch Lots of approaches. I have never done a video on segmenting and not sure I will. Segmenting does not appeal to me but you are right about cutting in side grain. I cut screw chucks of pine using crossgrain for reversing boxes. But cutting lots of wedges and re-gluing just does not appeal to me.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning How does hard maple fare? I've tried some at 16 TPI and have had marginal success with hard maple. I've just recently gotten a 10 TPI thread set and plan to try that with hard maple. Am I just chasing my tail on this? Not a lot of trees like osage orange or bradford pear available to those of us here in the desert, so my hope was that something like hard maple would have a chance of working with the courser threads. Not ready to spring for the uranium enriched woods yet; I still have some technique to perfect before subjecting $3/inch wood to my wood butchery.