Found a trick for hiding pocket hole plugs on cherry

I was getting sick of wood filler cracking around my pocket hole plugs on a cherry entertainment center. Switched to cutting the plugs flush with a chisel instead of a flush trim bit, and the grain matches way better. Anybody got a go-to method for avoiding that slight tear-out?

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the_robin28d agoTop Commenter

Yeah I was ALL about the flush trim bit for the longest time, thought I had it dialed in on my walnut table. But man that tear-out on cherry is BRUTAL, it left these fuzzy edges that just wrecked the grain flow. Your chisel trick makes Total sense now that I think about it. I always worried about splitting the plug face but I bet if you score the edge first with a marking knife it'd be fine. I'm definitely gonna try this on my next cherry project because blending those plugs is the WORST part of the whole build.

olivia57328d ago

Score the plug face first with a sharp knife and you won't split a thing.