Building The Steven's Favorite

[Rickabilly]

Hello Tom,
As always nice work,

I assume you used the taper turning attachment to cut the tapered thread on the wood screws?

Watching you making even the wood screws reminds me a bit of my Father.

My father used to have a bit of an OCD side when it came to making machine screws, he would cut the screws leaving the head in the cheese head style, with all of the under head surfaces finished and then screw them into the part, in this case the part would be the receiver and then mark each screw as to it's final tightened position, then he'd remove the screws again and finish the head and cut the slots so as all the slots are either vertical or horizontal, it would drive him nuts if just one of the screws was not in it's "correct" orientation, he would even go from room to room in the house with a flat blade screwdriver lining up all of the screws in the light switches, etc.

On machine screws with washers the easy way was to make washers of various thicknesses and match the correct washer, screw and hole combinations and then never mix them up, alternately just a skim off of the underside of the head could be used to adjust the final position of a screw slot.

I figure that any really good machinist has some OCD tendencies kind of comes with the territory

I do hope I haven't just made all of your screws into obsolete parts
Best Regards
Rick