How to conceal screw heads | Screw digger | Plug cutter

[Esuper1]

I never glue these things as they go in tight when i do em. Dont know when you might need to remove the screw or simply tighten them as they get loose with time and then you just pull them like a bottle cork. Pop goes the weasel!

[zapwatt]

Seems to me like a lot of kit for nothing. I buy dowel rod by the linear foot and just cut off a little plug as needed. No need for scrap wood and set up time on the drill press.

[alexkid1978]

@zapwatt

I've never done this but I can see the problem with this being that the colour, look, grain pattern of the wood will most likely be different. In some cases not so much, in others drastically.

[Charrister]

Bought a Diston screwdigger set as I wanted to hide screws in a pine project I was working on. Whenever I try a cut plug out of a piece of scrap the plug cutter turns it to mush. I just get a lump of flakey, crumbley pine stuck in the cutter(??)

[ultimatehandyman]

@jamiejackson976

Your chuck is not orbiting is it?

[jamiejackson976]

i was taught to glue the full plug in then chisel/plane/sand flush afterwards,

[ultimatehandyman]

@jamiejackson976

That is probably a good way of doing it as well. I'll try that out the next time I use the kit. Thanks for the comment!

[jimboharris21]

@jamiejackson976 I also use a sharp chisel makes a neater job. however I have found that the plug cutter works fine in my 18v makita. I have the same screw digger set and they get VERY hot after 2 holes in pine windowboards

[ultimatehandyman]

@jimboharris21

Thanks for the comment.

So you can actually cut the plug using a cordless drill as well?

[jimboharris21]

@ultimatehandyman yes, without a problem, i have never used a piller drill. just keep the drill straight.