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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)

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Post by ricardobeat »

neogodless wrote: post #5

The 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.

The comments in the post say it’s been discontinued, but I was able to find similar bits by other brands, searching for “self-centering plug cutter”.

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Post by 542458 »

enlyth wrote: post #4
pigtailgirl wrote: post #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 -- 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

For what it’s worth - you can have a lot of fun with a small budget wood lathe and not a lot of space. Pens, small bowls and plates, chess pieces… it’s not as spectacular as big slab tables, but it captures the same “show off beautiful figured wood and nice finishes” bit and it’s cheaper and less space intense. If you are really pressed for space, a small lathe is usually small enough that you could carry it outside when you wanted to turn something (you’d need something to clamp it to outside of course). Or you could have a shed setup - that’s pretty common.

Some parts of the UK have real turning communities or guilds still, and they may offer courses or use of much nicer lathes there.

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Post by chrisdhoover »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #10
rib3ye wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Live edge is bad but also funny because it is decidedly dead.

River tables are a fad where future people will wonder what were they thinking

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Post by pigtailgirl »

amelius wrote: post #9
pigtailgirl wrote: post #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 -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos

Can one make a decent income with woodworking?

-- would imagine the wood working tools are not cheap to build up a collection of - and the time commitment seems high - however the dude I linked on youtube seems to sell some stuff for USD $10/15k - his recent table cost him a little over a grand in wood and is currently on ebay for US $4,850.00* - according to the website of his wood supplier - the wood he selected for his recent table is the most expensive wood they have** --

** https://hamiltonleesupply.com/collections/liveedge-slabs-1

* https://www.ebay.com/itm/195247776682

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Post by skywal_l »

pigtailgirl wrote: post #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 -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos

Carl Rogers rebuilding a house in SW France is also pretty interesting even it the techniques he used are sometime unconventional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75pQ2HxRgM

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Post by spenczar5 »

amelius wrote: post #9
pigtailgirl wrote: post #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 -- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacktailStudio/videos

Can one make a decent income with woodworking?

Finish carpentry is woodworking, and there are pretty good opportunities there.

Furniture making is a tough way to make a living; factories are very good at furniture so you need to find customers with a lot of willingness to spend. Even at $25/hr for labor, a table and set of 4 chairs will end up around $5-10k easily. There just aren’t that many people who spend that much.

(I am a finish carpenter and sometimes furniture maker)

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Post by mbrameld »

mauvehaus wrote: post #2

If 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. Wh…

I don't know if you read it or not but the article also emphasizes that this cutter cuts a tapered plug.

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Post by megraf »

I've made plugs with a hole saw that turned out pretty OK. I drilled out the knot with a hole saw and made the plug by removing the center drill after getting about 20% through the plug board.

I used a slightly larger saw for creating the plug and then sanded the difference (after marking the plug with a set of calipers) on a belt sanding jig, which allowed me to essentially turn the plug.

The end result wasn't as good as Paul's, but it allowed me to get the job done.

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Post by eropple »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #10
rib3ye wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

The river table stuff is largely dead, from my perspective. It's a neat gimmick but it's run its course. I haven't seen somebody talk about one, or seen a new one on YouTube, for months. Maybe longer?

And, FWIW, Festool only sponsors a couple of woodworkers and very rarely gives tools to others for marketing purposes. You see a lot of Festool (and Fein and Mirka) because it's worth it if you're serious. They feel good to use; the Domino is a joy to use and their ETS sanders are way less punishing on my hands than the alternatives.

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