Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
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Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#2If you're actually plugging holes with the plugs you make, the other thing to look for is a plug cutter that cuts a slightly tapered plug. The taper ensures that the plug will fill the hole even if it's drilled slightly undersized or (more commonly) slightly oversized. Beware that if you're driving a tapered plug into a hole near the edge of a board, you can split the board. Now you have two problems, as they say.
What other use would a plug cutter have besides cutting plugs for filling holes? Cutting cylindrical tenons. For that application, you'd want one that cuts straight-sided plugs. Unless you're cutting tapered mortises too, of course, in which case you want the tapers to match.
It turns out that you can also use plug cutters without the center spur in a handheld drill to cut cylindrical tenons if you taper the end of the stick so that the plug cutter rides the taper onto the end of the stick. I wouldn't try this with a cutter with four spurs, but the single spur ones apparently do quite well:
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2022/02/24/chairmaking-on-the-...
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#3-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking --
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#4-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos
Wish I had space to do something like this, here in the UK houses are tiny compared to most of the developed world, and having some kind of garage is basically a luxury
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#5The included hyperlink to the product discussed did not work. I suspect it was something like this:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hitachi-3-8-in-Plug-Cutter/3056069 (discontinued)
None of these match (have the 4 cutting teeth and the center), they either have two teeth with the center or 4 teeth without.
https://www.woodcraft.com/categories/plug-cutters
Wonder how these other ones hold up to hand drilling.
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#6-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos
Wish I had space to do something like this, here in the UK houses are tiny compared to most of the developed world, and having some kind of garage is basically a luxury
On the bright side: you don't have to keep it clean.
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#7-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos
Try Ishitani Furniture. Similar satisfying flow but without the voiceover.
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#8At a pinch, drilling a hole the external diameter of the plug cutter and clamping that to the board you are getting the plug out of can act as a guide so the plug cutter doesn’t spiral out and cut a hole in the wooden stairs you are using as an impromptu bench (for example).
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#9-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos
Can one make a decent income with woodworking?
Re: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
#10-- never cared about woodwork till discovering Blacktail Studio on youtube - now all I want to do is make tables - highly recommend - especially if you give zero f's about woodworking -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos
Try Ishitani Furniture. Similar satisfying flow but without the voiceover. https://youtu.be/x51zMg7roIs
Yep, beautiful stuff. Definitely my favorite woodworker on YouTube so far.
I think his style is more mine. The epoxy "river tables" and all the live-edge stuff that is trendy puts me off of other the YouTubers. (Never mind all the Festool marketing that goes on.)