How to Make and Install Wood Plugs
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- How to cover exposed screw heads with wood plugs. Learn how to make and install wood plugs. Chris shows you how to cut custom plugs from any wood species.
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Haven't done fine woodworking in 40 years. This tutorial on wood plugs was just what I needed. Really good tips- thanks
Good video.
Well explained!!
A helpful, clear explanation. What more can you ask for? Many thanks.
Very informative. Thank you for making such educational videos.
Thanks! I saw a video of someone using a plug saw to remove the tops of the glued plugs. It had teeth angled up very slightly. Couldn't find a "plug saw" but loved your tips- much appreciated!
What a lesson to learn 👌👌🌹
A well timed top tip, I had 37 plugs to stick in today. I did cut off a 6" bit of wood with the glue well in as it was easier when up the ladder.
thank you. great idea about the protector on the flush cut saw
If you are at liberty to sand afterward, you can skip the protector. Instead, hone the back of a Japanese tooth style oscillator blade (or a dedicated flexible blade flush cutting hand saw) on a stone to eliminate any set on the side that will contact the wood. Use this flattened back of the blade as a guide against the work piece. With good technique and practice, you can avoid scratching altogether, or at least minimize it to what will be quickly erased by very light sanding.
thank you for the time . i am new so all ohh awws at this point i soak it in like a sponge .
I like the spacer idea! 👍🏼
Great video mate, thanks for the tips :)
Very clear vid. Thanks man. But much better if name appears on screen of those drill pins.
how i love your videos, ty keep doing it!
I always bottom the cutter, that way it rounds the end and makes it alot easier to start it in the hole.
Thanks for a complete tutorual start to finish. Helped me a lot
Thank you.
great ! thanks
I make wood plugs from a length of non-fluted dowel. I take a piece roughly the length of a pencil, then chamfer the end slightly in a hand-cranked pencil sharpener. I cut the end off so that my plug is roughly 10mm long, then bang in the plug, with wood glue, chamfered end first. When the glue has dried I trim off the excess with a junior hacksaw and sand smooth with an orbital sander. I don't attempt to match the grain too much, as I believe neatly installed plugs look fine as they are.
It's true they look fine but the wood moves differently across the grain as opposed to along it so you run the risk (although minimal) of the plug becoming loose as the wood expands and contracts.
Hi - great tips but do you think it's lame to leave that 1/32" of the plug raised? I think it's deluxe looking.
good video, Take my sub!
What if, after a year or two of weathering, the screws need to be tightened? Would you just drill out the plugs and then replace them?
I would but carefully you wouldn't want to damage the screw head you don't have buy a plug cutter you can just use dowels if you are into covering the screws the other way is to use a chisel or plane to lift a bit of wood grain part way counter sink a screw/nail in and glue the wood grain back down
@@grumpydaz6522 That seems like an original ideal, peel back the wood grain then screw together, then glue wood grain back down. That is part genius. lol If you practice that you could probably be good at it, and could also just break it all the way off, but carefully and then glue it back in after you put your screw down in there. Would have to have a really thin blade, but strong, to get the peel started fine enough that once glued back in you can't notice the tool mark where it had to plunge into the wood to get the splinter started,
Never use a screwdriver to break off the plugs. The screwdriver dents the side of the plug and the break is often ragged and makes the plugs useless. I place a strip of painters tape across the line of cut plugs and rip the board about 1/2" clear of the plugs and cut the board on edge cutting the plugs free on the bandsaw. The tape holds the plugs from falling all over the place.
yup that's how I do it too. Also I use the end grain instead
I think he cut off the side he pressed with the screwdriver. That's what I assumed anyway.
Learn how to use a screwdriver and you will save a lot of time.
Not using screws is the ulitmately the best way of hiding screwheads :P
As Elon Musk always says: “The best part is no part.”
Gylfi Sigurdsson look-a-like!
visually the wood plugs do not really add any advantages unless they are painted over..as you can see from the examples....
just use dowels
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