Add a Threaded Lid to Your Urn | Is It Time to Learn To Cut Threads?

I demonstrate how to add a threaded lid to your urn using the two piece vessel I did a video on a few weeks back. Click here for Turning a Two-Part Vessel • Two Piece Vessel Turni...
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[@glencrandall7051]

You make it look so easy Mike. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thank you too, Glen.

[@ValioMadre7]

Thanks for sharing, please keep them coming.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

You bet!

[@jackthompson8019]

Great tutorial Mike. Thanks a lot.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeanlong4285]

Thanks for all the great info.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Our pleasure!

[@LewisKauffman]

Thanks, Mike! Threading is something I'm gonna have to try and learn.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

You can do it!

[@bernardfutter650]

Thanks, Mike; I've been making paired threaded annuli for stock, and trimming to outer diameter at point of use. Much more efficient to fit the collar and then thread it, as there is still chance to take corrective action if chasing hits a snag. Bernard.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I agree. And that is the way I probably should have shown. But collars are so easy to thread compared to a box lid, I rarely have an issue.

[@monophoto1]

I noticed that you glued the wooden insert into the urn before enlarging the opening and cutting the threads, but when you were illustrating use of plastic/corian material for the insert, it appeared that you were threading the insert before glueing it into the urn. Could you expand on that choice? It seems to me that it might be safer to cut the threads in the insert before glueing it in so that if there was a problem with chasing, there would be an option to toss it in the burn box and make another insert. (My failure rate is such that I always expect disaster!)

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

You have a valid point about completing the insert with thread before adding to the vessel.

[@joecrocker8930]

Mike, I've never done any thread chasing but I would like to try. I have some exceptionally hard and dense oak that I think would work for thread chasing. But I don't know. If I send you some will you try it? No strings attached. Please reply and I'll get it in the mail.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thanks for the offer, but No. The wood needs to be a ring diffuse wood like Pear and not a courser ring porous wood like oak. Hardness is one factor but it also needs to be a very tight, straight grain.

[@joecrocker8930]

​@@MikePeaceWoodturningI know I said this wood is oak but I'm not sure. I got it from a large old half rotten stump. The grain is very tight. After cutting on my table saw the surface looks as smooth as glass and it's very hard. I'm in north Florida so I don't know what else it could be. I think you should try it.

[@Amybaumgart]

Do you think 10tpi might be easier or more difficult than 16tpi? I have not had any luck with getting good threads with my 16tpi.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

More difficult for sure. courser threads are always hard to chase then finer threads. For 16tpid you need very hard wood. What wood are you having a problem with. Did you watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWjHg5Zvd7afqdE