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Briar snuff jar

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:17 pm
by Maddwarf69
Decided to see if I could use a standard tap and die on an acrylic rod offcut... idle hands ya know. Then I just had to use it on something, so I made a snuff jar. The body was made from a briar reject block with a crack on the stem. The threaded pieces wouldn't fully thread together, need a bottoming die, so I turned a mahogany spacer from yet another scrap.
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For what it's worth, I found coarse threads cut better. I suspect the threads would be much better with tooling that hasn't been abused for 4+ decades.

Re: Briar snuff jar

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:30 am
by caskwith
There is more contact with finer threads hence greater friction. You need plenty of lube.