Woodworker's Journal 1980-4-5, страница 27

The Gift Shop (cont'd)

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NlltS & BoltS by Paul Levine

Put a few of these on the coffee table and your friends won't be able to put them down. It's a good gift item and small enough to be made from scrap...an ideal item for wholesale production.

Start with 1³A" stock at least 3Vi" long. Mahogany, maple and walnut are good choices. Mount the stock in a lathe and turn a stepped cylinder. The first step is V»" long with a diameter of 17s". The second step is 2⁵/»" long with a diameter of 1". On the first step you will find that the cylinder is flat on four sides.

After removing the piece from the lathe, trim the ends, and connect the flats by sanding away the rounds. This will form an octagon when looking from the top. Bevel the top

edges of the octagon.

To finish the bolt use a 1* thread cutting device, cutting the threads as far up as you can. For the nut cut a V* " thick by Wi" square piece of scrap. Bore a V*" hole in the center, and thread with the female thread cutter.

Let the nut and bolt sit for a few days and then recut the threads - it will operate much smoother. Also, to increase production, cut the nuts in a long strip, and then after boring and threading, cut them apart. You can also turn many bolts back to back at one time and then cut them apart.

Nutcracker

Here's an intriguing gadget that cracks nuts in short order while neatly collecting the pieces in the plywood bottom.

The box is under a great deal of strain when a nut is cracked, so use hardwood and be sure to include dovetails as shown. To accent the dovetails we used mahogany for ends and maple for sides. The ends and sides are cut from Vi" stock, then dovetails are fashioned as shown. Before permanently joining dovetails with glue, drill a 1 Vi" dia. x '/»" deep recess in one end. Also tap the other end for the 1" threaded rod.

To make the threaded rod, first turn a 5" length of maple

to 1" dia., then band or back saw a Vi" square x Vi" long tenon on one end. With the threadbox, cut a 1" thread along the remaining length. The rod can now be cut to a finish length of 3¹/j , including tenon.

The handle is made from a piece of mahogany V* x 1 x 4. Cut the stock to shape, noting that it narrows to Vi" thick at the middle when viewed from the side, and that it flares to 1" thick at the middle when viewed from the top. After cutting a Vi" square x ³/>" deep mortise, the handle can be sanded and glued to the threaded rod. Thread the rod into box then glue 1" dia. x V*" thick disc to the end as shown. Finally a Vi" plywood bottom is cut and glued inside the box, flush with edges of ends and sides.

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