I am building a nice utility cabinet: 3/4″ plywood carcass with face frame and raised panel doors.
I am struggling to find a good method for drilling plywood for fasteners and then plugging the holes. Things never fit quite right. The plugs dont fit and the wood is nevery quite thick enough to handle all the steps in the one shot hole cutters.
I am currently using Vermont American drill and countersink combos with a vermont american plug cutter. It kinda sucks.
any suggestions?
thx, dave
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Dave,
I have never done any plugcutting/ holeplugging, but I suspect, that any problems you may be having are exacerbated [Eat that spellchecker!!] by the Vermont American tools that you are using. Around here,they're considered kind of low end lumber yard tools;not quite ANY TOOL IN THIS BIN 4.99!! But close. I suspect you might have better results with more precisely built cutters and bits.Rockler and Woodcraft offer nice ones and Lee Valley/Veritas have a great selection at reasonable prices; drill, counterbore, and stop Collier $13, tapered plugcutter $11 plus shipping. I hope this helps.
Chris
I suggest you get a HSS brad point drill and the corresponding snug plug cutter from Veritas marketed by Lee Valley and some U.S. mail order houses.You will find that they cut cleaner than the tapered drill ,counterbore combination.I have ,and use both frequently on trim installation jobs
Jacko
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