Zulu,
While I was admiring your woodworking skill, I thought, "Too bad he has to use conventional steel nuts and bolts".
Then I remembered the extra tool that I still have tucked away for over 50 years. It's brand new and still in the box. I often bought two of a few things that I believed were going to prove to be difficult or impossible to replace.
Without crossing the yard in deep snow to get to my ice cold shop, I believe I can tell you it was made by Marples, England, definitely pre China
It threads wood. You can fashion nuts and bolts with it. I think it threads 3/4 or 1 inch.
You have to do things like that where I live here in NEW YORK. I live in a Piglet. It's smaller than a Hamlet. The Village which is 15 miles away, has one traffic light and a central school covering 5-6 town with a student body K-12 of 350.
When I make it in to "town", I get alot smiles and people say "hello" but most just nod because teeth are rare. My friends daughter got hitched and both families with the wedding party, lined up for one long wide picture. Twenty-two people. Then the photographer said, "smile!". If you pulled every tooth from every head of every person, you couldn't make a full set.
I had a heck of a time chopping through all of the black top and concrete to make a pasture for my beef cattle to graze on but that's what its like in the 3,ooo acre mountain hollow we live in with one road in and the same road out unless the Herfords are blocking it. The other eleven people who call this home, are faced with the same road. It's just like that all the way here in NEW YORK from the Atlantic Ocean to the south and the Great Lakes to the north. Our county alone, is larger than the State of Rhode Island.
It doesn't surprise me when people say that they drove through NEW YORK and they didn't like it. Clearly, they weren't here where I am because we hardly have any roads. They must have stuck to the Thru Way. It's safer for them there. Whip through at 85, see nothing and meet nobody.
We got alot of nodders in these hills and alot of tough Hill Billys. That's why nobody packs iron (except me). Pool cues, beer bottles, boots, fists and alot of tooth removing head butting. Me? I have to pack because I am still looking over my shoulder.
I can shoot my full sized cannons when I just step out my front door. They can hear them off yonder in the Piglet but nobody between here and there, gives a hoot. That's why we are here.
I love NEW YORK because I am NOT afraid of it. I was born in B*R*O*O*K*L*Y*N ....U S A. You can't beat that with a stick.
RRC
