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  1. The following is a post that I made on a particular forum topic. I can't remember which one. The post never got posted due to a logging in problem. I sure could use some help, and what the heck is the forum topic? Thanks in advance, fishdoc OK fellas..I need mega help. First of all I'm a real neophyte. A carpenter I'm not, but making plugs is a real kick. Like many of the posts I am after the "fail safe way of drilling a centering hole in a piece of wood. I have a drill press (convinced my wife it would save me money by making my own plugs). I also picked up a wood lathe (can?t believe I convinced her again). I first tried making a 3 sided (square corner) jig into which I clamped a dowel or square piece of wood (once I got a lathe) and drilled about 1/2 way from each side...yup, sure did stack up some errors, mostly old broom stick or rake handles. Found that dowels drill better, but haven't tested many types of wood. By the way, I?m still using this and still chucking away off center dowels. I looked at the "dowel center" that is pictured here and am eager to find out HOW THE HECK IT WORKS. Now bear with me...read the first sentences of this post. I think that I can make the pictured dowel center, but just how does it work? I'm assuming (this could be bad) that the plug center will sit on the point of the centering thingy... what holds the plug straight so that I can drill it with the press? I can't fit a long 1/8th drill bit into the drill press; there is not enough travel, and I?ve snapped a couple 11 inch bits trying to do it by hand (they?re not cheap). So, I must drill from both ends. The descriptions of the "dowel center" make it seem it's just a matter of flipping the plug over and drilling the other side... I just can't picture what is holding the plug straight (perpendicular) while drilling. I like the chuck idea for the lathe, but remember I?m just getting used to the idea of it turning around at high speed making it way easier to shape a plug than a knife, file and sand paper. Crap, it took me a while to figure out I could leave it in the lathe and hold the sand paper against it. Now this whole deal of OFF CENTER drilling?man I?ve done a lot of that?so far off center that there is no way in hell that I?d ever get the holes from each end to line up. But I certainly wish that I could do some off center drilling for some of the plug designs that I would like to attempt. I?m not trying to market any plugs, it would just cut into my fishing time, something I AM NOT GIVING UP. I am just d@mn sick and tired of feeding $5.00 and $10.00 plugs to bluefish. I can?t even count the number of times I?ve told friends??don?t cast into the school, just up to the edge? It?s like my wife talking to me when I?m reading a fishing/hunting catalog?in one ear out the other! I haven?t even touched on the painting thing yet, but I did read the ?air brush debate? and I?m more blown away than ever! I use $2.00 per can spray paint from Benny?s and keep repainting after a few uses. Obviously my creations don?t have scale patterns or pretty little markings that look like a mackerel. Red, white, yellow, green and black all over a gray primer?simple hey?they work! I?ve gone so far as to make some 8 and 9 inch plugs that I refuse to even attempt to drill?epoxy and screw eyes are working fine!
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