Snappy Tools Plug Cutter, 3/4

I received this 3/4 inch and a 1/2 inch plug cutter from Bowers Tool promptly. Both are well made and Im glad to have an American-made product! I tried the 3/4 inch cutter in my drill press at 540 RPM on a piece of pine. It made a neat, clean cut with apparently little effort. I took my time to avoid overheating the cutter, and there was no burning of the wood. Im pleased with these cutters and highly recommend them and Bowers Tool.

Liked the ease of producing plugs.

Help me a lot

This fit my needs perfectly. I needed to replace a number of popped plugs in my floor. They fit the 3/4” holes smoothly, as opposed to the cheaper cutters that sometimes are too large or too small.

It worked fine it worked fine

For that price I expected perfect plugs and they were not even close. Try to get a clean glue line with this your dreaming.

The tool cut a very nice plug. Only thing I didn’t like was the tool got hot quick.I expected it to be sharper.

I cut 10 plugs in 3/4 hard red oak flooring to plug some 3/4 holes in my floor. Max plug depth is about 0.50 with the cutter all the way down. Some burning of the oak can be seen in the pictures which I was unable to avoid with any speed or cut pressure. Best performance was at 450RPM and light feed pressure. These plugs were cut with a table saw at 0.47 long. The tool produces a tapered plug with a slight radius at the small end to aid in insertion. Small diameter is 0.742, large diameter is 0.762. This produced a good interference fit into a 0.75 hole. the tool seems well made and other than the slight burning, performed very well. For comparison, I cut a straight walled 0.745 plug using my CNC router and .125 bit. I ended up using the tapered plugs.

I only cut out two plugs and out of Pine but I drilled a hole in my project with a three-quarter inch Forstner bit cut the plug loose from my stock fit in very nice and tight very happy.

I saw some other reviews saying that they broke this plug cutter but I cant imagine what they were trying to cut or do with it. I cut plugs out of red oak, an extremely hard wood, with no problem. This plug cutter is strong and sharp.