On 1/7/2014 5:00 PM, woodchucker wrote:
On 1/7/2014 5:40 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
woodchucker wrote:
On 1/7/2014 5:09 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 1/7/14, 3:11 PM, Leon wrote:
On 1/7/2014 1:51 PM, woodchucker wrote:
On 1/7/2014 2:43 PM, Leon wrote:
On 1/7/2014 11:39 AM, woodchucker wrote:
On 1/7/2014 12:29 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
woodchucker writes:
On 1/7/2014 11:46 AM, Leon wrote:
On 1/7/2014 9:58 AM, woodchucker wrote:
On 1/7/2014 10:51 AM, Pat Barber wrote:
On 1/6/2014 5:15 PM, Gordon Shumway wrote:

But wouldn't that require multiple plug cutters to cover
the different
diameters?

The Lee Valley counter sinks are not designed for plugs,
you would need these for plugs:

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/pag...at=1,180,42240



Often times, the hole doesn't really need a plug, just a
flush fit
for the screw head.




Those are for wood screws, not drywall screws.
Most of us use dry wall screws today.


Really, do you believe that?





Yes I do. I said most. I didn't say all.
I think if you took a survey you would not find tapered wood
screws in
use for 90% of the people.

I think you will find DRY WALL (LIKE) screws most of the time.
While they don't have to be drywall screws, they are straight
shanked screws
that are drywall like.

There is that better? ;-0

Not really; you've expressed nothing but personal opinion. If
you'd limited your statement to "they won't work for me,
because I use drywall
screws instead of wood screws", there would be no complaints.

As I use wood screws, I (and apparently Leon), don't fall into
your assumptive "most of us" categeory.


That's correct. MOST OF US is NOT ALL OF US!!
But I'm pretty sure MOST OF US DO USE A DRY WALL TYPE OF SCREW..
STRAIGHT SHANKED OVER TAPERED.
Since you don't, you're not most of us, and I already knew that
about you.



My biggest question was with your original comment of most of us
using dry wall screws. I'm not doubting that probably most of us
don't use the tapered wood screw but until you later clarified a
dry wall "type" screw and referring to the shape of the screw, I
was not so sure.
You have to realize that our straight shank screws came from
drywall. The screws for furniture were stil tapered. Way more
screws are used for drywall than furniture, so it is the
technology from the drywall screw that drove the other wood
threaded types of fasteners... the threads being much sharper ,
deeper, and less prone to splitting. The old taper had the problem of
splitting wood often. If you
didn't drill with a tapered bit to the correct depth you wound up
with a split from too short a pilot hole, or too loose a screw
since the taper was too wide because you drove it too deep.

I still occasionally use a tapered screw, but I prefer not to.



OK, you are missing my point. You did not originally mention screws
that resembled dry wall screws, you mentioned specifically drywall
screws. After I took exception that most of us use drywall screws
you changed your comment to dry wall "like". That i some what
agree on, although.....

Dry wall screws specifically are much too brittle and small in
diameter to be acceptable for furniture building. This is the
point I was trying to make.


I am going to assume dry wall and or the drywall screws were not
around in the 1800's.

Having said that straight shank gimlet point screws were patented as
early as 1846 by the Eagle Screw Company.

So perhaps today's straight shank screws did not come from drywall.


So correct.... but he kept digging anyway. :-)


Not really, it's not the straight shank alone, it's the rolled threads
that made the straight shank really workable. it's got more strength
and is really the big deal.

But fine if you want to say I am a total idiot and didn't know what I
was referring to, I have no problem.

Oye! This thread didn't even get off to a good start. Too many people
taking exception to what Jeff said based on some idiosyncratic crap that
never even mattered in the first place. Ferpetessake - the guy was just
trying to make a point - not to write a dissertations that he'd have to
defend. I got the point he was trying to make. Can't help but wonder
why
others didn't.

Relax Mike, I'm no taking it to heart. I have too think a skin for that.
Just trying to have fun with the guys that want to have a punching bag..


FWIW "I" was just trying to clarify, not prove you wrong.

Now, is "think" skin closer to thin or thick. ;~) Just playing with you.