Making Your Own ThreadWe'll be hand-carving a tap
to make a die
to make a tap
to make a die
to make a tap
By which step the tap and die should be usable for making functional items like nuts and bolts, clamps, hand-vises...
There will be lots of filing and heat-treating.
And a bit of hammering. These things will need handles.
Note: the threads we make will be utterly personal. Non-standard in nearly every way.
It is currently unclear whether we will continue on and make a c-clamp with our new taps and dies.
Gift Certificates for Making Your Own Thread are available.
Length unknown at this time dates×
Instructor: Carl West
Fee: also unknown at this time per student
Maximum 4 students, one per forge
Please wear proper clothing for visiting or working in the forge:
closed toe shoes (preferably leather, preferably high-topped. Sneakers are sufficient, sandals, crocs, pumps, mules... are not), natural fiber clothing, long pants that cover the tops of the shoes.
Click here for more safety information.
This class is either: If you're interested in taking Making Your Own Thread and it's not on the calendar, please tell us using our Notification-List Page.
Dates and Times:
If none of the dates below work for you (or are already full), we suggest you
Add yourself to the Notification List for this class.
(The notification list gets emailed soon after classes are put on the schedule.)
- not upcoming on our schedule,
- or we've fallen behind in our clerical duties and not entered it in the database.
If you found it on our calendar page, we are planning to offer it on that date.