Source for Slot-Head Wood Screws

[dkeller_nc]

I suspect I may not be the only one that refuses to put torx, philips, or square-drive screws into a reproduction project.  Slot-heads have gotten increasingly hard to find, and I'd resorted to buying the cheap 'n crappy Home Despot zinc-plated slot head screws and stripping the zinc with citric acid.  Someone posted this link on a Sawmill Creek forum thread, and I thought fellow SAPFM members would want to know about it:

http://www.blacksmithbolt.com/index.html

[Antiquity]

I buy my slotted wood screws from, www.fastenal.com.  Muratic acid (use with extreme caution) will strip the coating in a few seconds.

Dennis Bork

[Mickey Callahan]

Try contacting McMaster-Carr.

Mickey

[gofer73]

Check out the old-time fasteners available at Blacksmith Bolt & Rivet Supply at http://www.blacksmithbolt.com/index.html.  I bought a selection of black oxide round-heads last year and they are extremely nice stuff.

RD

[Mickey Callahan]

I just discovered another source for cut-thread wood screws. They even carry non-coated, slotted flat head steel. Check it out:

Goulet Specialties
20 Oakdale Ave.
Winsted, CT 06098
860-379-5419
www.oemfastners.net
sales@oemfastners.net

[msiemsen]

try
http://www.oemfasteners.net/
They are fasteners not fastners
An important E
It appears they sell bronze and stainless screws for boat building, unless I looked in the wrong place. Can you post a link to the uncoated steel screws Mickey?
Mike

[John Cashman]

I also saw Goulet Specialties at the CVSW open house this past weekend. They had a 110 year old mechanical screw threading machine running at their booth, and I could have sat and watched the elegant old machine do its work all day. My sense is they list their stock items on the web, but will make pretty much any style and type of screw you like. When asked, they even said they could make cheese head screws for me. They are the first outfit I've talked to that even knew what a cheese head screw was.

If there was a particular type, size, and material of screw enough people were interested in, I wonder if it would be worth thinking about having a run made and splitting it between members here?

[rfrancis]

You can walk in and buy slotted steel screws at Clerkenwell Screws 109 Clerkenwell Road London EC1R 5BY 0207405 6504. Like a good old fashioned ironmonger.
Probably cheaper than commissioning some.
I will ask if they can mail to US when I next visit.

[kerry grubb]

O.K. I give up. What's a "cheese head" screw?

[John Cashman]

A cheese head screw has a tall cylindrical head (straight sides) with a flat top, and deeply slotted. The head is usually about half as tall as it's diameter. Modern fillister heads are close, but the fillister heads aren't as tall, and have a slightly domed top or rounded edges. One use for cheese head screws that leaps to mind are as strike buttons on the heel of infill planes.

[Mickey Callahan]

I thought the cheese head screw was for fastening the "cheese head" to Green Bay Packer fans!!