Thread: wood threading devices

i want to build a couple of things needed for bookbinding and need/and/or/want to do it with wooden threaded dowels rather than metal. i watched a demo at woodcraft on a manual threader and then watched a demo from beall tool co, for one that uses a router to cut the threads. it looked to do a better job but there's a big price difference and i'm always on the peek to invoke Alice's Law of Compensatory Spending..with the money i save on the woodcraft threader i can buy another razor. anybody have any experience with either of these two tools?

I don't, but I have plenty of experience with trying to make the decision about woodworking tools that you are describing.

For me, it always comes down to these two things:
1) Will I have to re-buy a tool because the more economically friendly one was junk and needed to be replaced.

2) Do I need to make every piece of a project from scratch or do I only want to say I made every piece from scratch.

These two things have kept more money in my pocket relative to buying woodworking tools than anything else.

Cheers

i found a source for wooden bench screws but they are tres expensive. the woodcraft kit is only 46 bucks. it just looked like it didn't do as clean a job on the threaded dowel. the tap to make the matching hole pretty much was identical to the beall tool co. item.
i could make these presses i want by using black iron pipe and pipe clamps but i bet by the time i bought all that stuff i'd be over 46 bucks for sure.
i have a fine woodworking magazine publication that has plans for a threader. i could dig that out.

we're getting whacked by a snowstorm here in the boston area. i think there is more snow in my yard than there was in the no-name storm of 1991. i have two loafs of pain rustique rising, pea soup with smoked turkey legs simmering, a hunk of pork belly roasting away, and i just put the other half of the belly into a cure to make pancetta. and i'm in the cellar working on some purpleheart scales. life is good right now.l

I have used both, but own neither so my experience is limited. The threaders utilized like a die (tap system as well) make batter looking threads on extremely hard woods, but never make great looking threads. They don't seem to wear out as quickly as I thought they would, but I wouldn't want to use one if I were having to do any major distance.
Beall makes some quality products and I have been using their stuff for a while now. I don't think that you can go wrong with the beall system, but you must dictate what you want the threads to look like and how much threading you plan on doing not just for this project, but future as well.
You may be able to find a jig plan online for making something similar.