Some screws are turned by hand, others lost their head, and one looks like a sea monster. It might be time you read up on ...

Woodworking screws are actually quite the varied microcosm, with a massive number of combinations of heads, drives, threads, points, and materials.

Introduction Did you know that choosing the wrong drywall screws can cause screws to break, rust, slip, and even affect the quality of your ...

Drywall Screws: There are two basic types of drywall screws -- finely threaded (S-type), for attaching drywall to metal studs, or coarsely threaded (W-type) for attaching drywall to wood.

Along with the pitch, or number of threads per unit length, thread friction contributes to the self-locking, or “non-overhauling” property of most screw threads.

Tapping screws form mating threads in materials they are driven into. There are two basic types: thread forming and thread cutting.

The humble coarse-thread drywall screw is built to fasten drywall to wood or light-gauge steel framing, but it’s also a low-cost and simple fastener for making wood-to-wood connections ...

Unless you're the handy practical type, you probably don't handle a screw very often. You can think of a screw as a cylindrical rod with a continuous spiral thread on the outside, and which is ...