Somewhere, in an old issue of FWW, there is a tip for expelling the plug from a straight-sided plug cutter. We salvaged some vertical-grain doug fir and have to plug carriage bolt holes about every five feet in 100 eighteen foot 1x6s. Several of the boards will be sacrificed for plugs so that grain can be reasonably matched and the tongue and groove boards used in a ceiling application. The plugged hole doesn’t have to be invisible, just inconspicuous. The first several plugs were a bear to extract and it’s daunting to anticipate three or four hundred repetitions. Help! Larryberg
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Larry, drill the plug short of going all the way through. Take the pc with the plugs still attached and run it through a table saw on edge. This will cut the plugs to whatever depth you wish. The plugs may want to scurry off as they fall out of the board. Be safe and find a way to damn up the plugs.
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I use blue painters tape stuck to the face of the board, covering the cut plugs. When finished, pull up the tape and viola, plug-on-a-strip.
You can get quite a number of these done at one time by drilling several parallel rows of plugs near each edge, applying tape, run the board on edge thru the table saw, then flip the board end-for-end and rip the opposite edge.
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