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Made of alloyed steel for long-lasting cutting performance. To be used to make plugs in soft and hardwood. Right-hand rotation.
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Tenon and Plug Cutter 2-Inch
Bruce Weiser
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2025
Super sharp. Cut plugs in IPE like butter. Did not overheat!
Dan Gojs
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2025
Great plug cutter! Using it in our shop all the time!
Peter MacLean
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
Good product. Don’t waste you money on cheaper plug cutters. This cuts like butter and doesn’t burn.
Jim Mitchell
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2025
Great tool, does exactly what I needed it to do. Great quality!
Sophy L
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2024
Used it with a drill press to make a number of cuts. Cuts clean plugs and dowels up to 3 inches long. Precision is good. The cut is aggressive and requires reasonable stability of both the material and the drill. I couldn't imagine using it with a hand drill.Some quick tips:1) Pick the flattest side of the material and use it as the bottom support. If the material wobbles during cut you can break the plug/tenon, or worse the bit can catch the entire material and force it into spinning.2) If you drill through your material, part of the material can break off if it's near the edge. No big deal but it might affect the efficient use of the material.3) If you need to make more than just one or two cuts, to prevent overheating It's best to cut near the edge with one side of the cutter exposed outside the material. This way it can eject the wood chips automatically. This helps making clean cuts and keeping cutter cool. Do not exposed the cutter at more than one side though. It can cause the surrounding material to break off unexpectedly during cuts.4) The final cut-off of the plugs/tenons is best done with a bandsaw. If you don't have a bandsaw, a jigsaw or handsaw will do too. Don't use table saw or circular saw. It will likely shred the plugs/tenons in the process.
Mark
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2024
As advertised. Arrived on timeHappy happy
Senior Software Designer
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2024
Plug cutter is as advertised. I had some bad spots on my cedar deck floor boards that I wanted to replace. Drilled the bad spots out with a 1-1/2 inch diameter Forstner bit and cut a plug using this plug cutter from a scrap piece of cedar. The hole and the plug were very close in size. The plug was about 1/128" too small, which is fine by me. I can make a 1/128" crack disappear with superglue and some sand paper. Make sure your drill has a 5/8" capacity chuck.
Bruce W.
Reviewed in Canada on May 13, 2021
Not at all impressed with these plug cutters. They were burning the wood on the 1st cut. Will try them once more and return if the same results are achieved
Chrisfrance
Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2019
I liked this....it does what it says. Heavy duty very sharp and accurate even by hand.
Dan Gojs
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2018
It does the job however is not heavy duty piece....if you slow down rpm at drill press will work better
Rejean Charest
Reviewed in Canada on August 17, 2017
Good quality for the price
P. MSakamoto
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2015
This is the first plug cutter I've owned. Over the last thirty years of hobby level woodworking I have always used ready made plugs or caps when the need arose to cover a countersunk screw. My last project, an outdoor bench. required fifty or so plugs to match the rest of the quarter sawn cedar it's made from. I didn't even bother looking for plugs and found this CMT cutter here on Amazon. I read the other reviews and decided that having more waste in the cuts was better than having bad cuts to begin with. Glad I made that choice!CMT has a pretty good overall reputation and this relatiely inexpensive cutter should add to it. Althouugh the packaging says it is made in China instead of Italy as most of their other bits are, the quality was as good as I would have expected. It was well packaged and super sharp out of the plastic. After cleaning it up with a rag and some WD, I chucked it up in my old Delta 17-900 drill press and went to work. I set the RPM to the package recommendation and started cutting plugs. The cutter is designed to be used with a thin board laid flat on the drill press table (with proper backing board on top, of course :-). I was making half inch thick plugs by cutting all the way through a resawn board. As you cut each plug, you do NOT have to remove it when it is done. Cutting the next plug will push it out through the slot in the middle of the cuttter body. Thus, when cutting a series of plugs, the only one you should have to remove manually is the last one.I cranked out the fifty plugs I needed as well as a bunch of spares in fifteen or twenty minutes once I was set up. It is actually kind of fun in itself and the cedar plugs were very clean. They were also precise - withing a few mils using my digital calipers. I would guess that with the soft and spongy wood I was using, a few mils is as good as can be done because it compresses and rebounds easily. Perhaps maple plugs would be about dead on. In any case, the plugs fit perfectly in my project and I'm a happy guy with some impressive results to report.I don't know if there are better plug cutters, but if there are it would be immaterial to me because this one is so far above the bar I would not bother with the others!
King Waters
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2012
This doweling bit will cut 3-inch dowels for woodworking projects, but it has some trouble with cutting hardwood dowels. With fir and pine [which work with most projects], the bit cuts well. But with hardwoods, the bit can catch the dowel and you have to pry the dowel out. I stick with softwoods, usually scraps I otherwise would throw away, cutting two or three dowels off one end, cutting them free, and then cutting two or three more off the same original piece. Pricewise, this works. Softwood dowels are still strong enough for tables and other furniture, provided you use several at a joint. Dowels from this jig also work well as covers for pocket screws, such as the Kreg jig. Softwood dowels stain well and sand/plane to a nice surface in the pocket screw application.
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