From lightbulbs and bottle caps to water taps and peanut butter lids, screws are everywhere! Learn about screws and make your own spinning top with the help of an alien engineer.

Learn what a screw thread is and how it functions. Part One covers the techniques for cutting threads in wood, including a lathe, using jigs and hand-held cutters and cutting them by hand. Part Two puts these techniques into practice with projects that include wooden bolts, threaded spindles, a screw top box, screw off tops for cruet sets and walking stick joints.

An unabashedly practical book, Nuts Bolts will be the single most useful book a college writing teacher could own.