What are tenon cutters?
Tenon cutters are the log furniture tools that cut tenons on the end of your log rails and spindles. These handy implements work to trim the end of your log rails, allowing them to be inserted into other logs to create the base structure of your furniture project.
What size tenon cutter do I need?
For most furniture and railing, a 1 1/2″ or 2″ tenon cutter is ideal. For smaller projects like lamps, coat racks or hickory furniture, the 3/4″ and 1″ tenon cutters are great. For larger “custom” projects you should look at the size of the logs you will be working with.
What is a hollow auger?
Standard practice called for mating a round tenon on the end of the spoke with a hole bored into the felloe. Craftsmen often formed the tenon with a device somewhat like a plug cutter, a tool known as a hollow auger. Both wooden and iron hollow augers had been in use in America since the time of the Revolution.
Can you sharpen plug cutters?
Snug-Plug Cutters come ready for use but should be honed occasionally for optimum cutting. Using a thin flat file, a sharpening stone or 320x sandpaper glued to hardboard, hone the face of each tooth, maintaining the factory rake angle. After prolonged use, if the tips dull, file the top bevel at the original angle.
What are reamers used for?
reamer, rotary cutting tool of cylindrical or conical shape used for enlarging and finishing to accurate dimensions holes that have been drilled, bored, or cored.
What is the main difference between hollow stem auger drilling and solid stem auger drilling?
What Is Hollow Stem Auger Drilling? This kind of drilling is like solid stem, except the Claw Bit is attached to a hollow stem, instead of a solid one. Once the bore hole reaches the desired depth, the hollow stem acts as a temporary casing, keeping the sides of the bore hole from caving in.
What are the benefits and limitations of hollow stem auger drilling?
A major advantage of the Hollow Stem Auger Drill is the well installation that is applied directly through the auger into non-cohesive material. A disadvantage is how the drill is unable to penetrate through cobbles, boulders and most rock formations.