week 9

    I forgot to post last week because it was spring break so I wasn't very focused on school work. however, this week i researched hidden screws and how to hide screw holes. The reason I researched this was because I knew that there was a way to hide screws when making a deck but I wasn't sure how. It turns out you can buy or make a jig that has an angled hole in it. You line the hole up with the edge of the board so that when the screw goes in, it goes in the board on the side, that way the next board will hide the screw. I thought that was really cool because decks just look so much nicer when there aren't little screw heads everywhere. While I was researching this topic I found a way to cover screw holes even when making furniture and going straight through the front face of the board. When you set the screw you have to make sure it gets seated into the wood so that there is a hole above the head. then you take the same material and cut out a circle the same size of the hole. The way this is done is with a special bit that is shaped liked a circle so when it drills, the material in the middle stays there. you take out the circle, jam it into the hole, and when you sand it, the dust will fill in the lines around it and it will be virtually invisible.
        below on the left is a wood plug and on the right is a deck with hidden screws.