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    Drilling Problem (pics)

    While drilling, the wood around the hole was torn...

    I'm guessing I should of used a brad point bit. This is the top of a small shoe bench that I am building. I was planning on screwing this piece down to the legs and plugging the hole with a dowel, but that won't look good now that I've messed up the hole. How would you fix this?



    another angle:

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    My first thought would be to square it up with a chisel and peg it. Clifford

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    Drill the top 1/8" deep to larger diameter and use a thin fat plug to cover over the dowel. You'll have to do the same thing on all of them so it looks right.

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    Butterfly dutchman and redrill (carefully) the hole

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    You're right that brad point bits or forstner bits would have drilled a cleaner hole. I would recommend patching the hole with a similar piece of maple and drilling a new hole through it from the back side with a back up piece material that is clamped tight to the surface. In the future should you need to drill, clamp a sacrificial piece on top and drill through it first. The sacrificial piece will be the one with the tear out on the top surface and you good piece shold have a perfect hole.

    If you have the option to cut a larger hole and can find a plug cutter of the right size for that hole, you can select a piece of wood with similar grain and color, then carefully cut a plug. If you orient the grain of the plug with the grain of the main board and get a good tight fit, the plug will be all but invisible after sanding and finishing.
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    I'd patch it once the project is assembled. Cut a dutchman with a piece of the same, or contrasting, wood, in whatever shape you want (the more complicated the shape, though, the harder it will be to cut the recess). An elongated diamond shape is common and fairly easy to cut and inlay, and is less conspicuous than some other shapes if that's your intent.

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    Wood putty!
    Wood: a fickle medium....

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    If you still have the shavings you drilled out, collect them break them up some and mix with glue and plug around the dowel or whatever goes in the hole, spread a little glue on the top and let it dry some them sand the surface and the dust will adhere to the shavings and glue and camoflauge the repair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    Wood putty!
    Umm...Chris. You know better than that!
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    Thanks for all of the ideas... well most of them. I'm going to attempt to inlay something after I get it assembled.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    Wood putty!
    Where is the :slap: smiley?

    I certainly won't be putting any wood putty on this:

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    C'mon! I gave a little wink at the end of my barb!

    Jeff, with some careful and thoughtful cutting and stock selection, I bet you can inlay a nearly invisible piece of maple over the damage.

    If you have a bandsaw, you might consider resawing a veneer from the exact board that is damaged (maybe from the bottom?) and then using that as the inlay. You may then wish to plane both boards slightly to maintain them as the same thickness.
    Wood: a fickle medium....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    Wood putty!
    Nah...just sand it out.

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    If you can live with the reduced thickness run it through your planer and rerout or sand the edge profile.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    C'mon! I gave a little wink at the end of my barb!
    Chris

    Me thinks if most folks could see the line of finish/repair products from Mohawk Finishes, You might not have needed to put the smiley at the end of your original post.
    I helped a co-worker repair a hutch door that blew out of the back of the truck on the highway during a move, with epoxy putties.
    There's a whole lot more to "Wood Putty" than what is available from minwax.

    In this case though, a dutchmans patch would be the qucikest and easiest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    Wood putty!
    Geez. I smell a moderaytur recall vote comin on
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