Hide screw heads with round dowels

Bolted wood joints are strong and practical, especially if they are simultaneously glued to butt. If you want, you can make the heads of the screws disappear with the old boat builder technology.

Simply "cover" a screw or nail head with a flat round dowel to protect the metal from seawater.

Action:

Pre-drill the future screw hole and drill out with a 10mm Forstner bit about 6-8mm deep. This is followed centrally by the actual pre-drilling for the screw to be used, e.g. with a 3mm twist drill. Now screw in the screw and then a 10mm round rod, there are in the hardware store, pat with some glue.

The protruding length of the rod is cut flush with a fine saw (the Japanese saws work very well here). The anchor cover is ground flat. Of course, you can also use round dowels (knothole dowels) to pick up the grain pattern. And whoever has it can also use a suitable dowel cutter for their own production of knothole dowels of the same wood.

Such cutters are unfortunately very expensive and are rather outside of this typing world. Incidentally, depending on your personal taste, dowel covers are also an interesting design feature.

How to conceal screw heads | Screw digger | Plug cutter | March 2024