So the hole plugging begins

Because the old nail holes are a bit shoot, we are filling them with tapered dowels and then re-drilling new holes for the new ribs to be fixed  to when they are steamed in position after the new ribs are made from the green oak we have in the yard outside of the workshop.


There are going to be a far number of these holes that need plugging over the course of the this restoration of Mai Star II, so we better get plug making 


First job is to get lengths of softwood turned on the lathe to near the right size and then use the tapered dowel cutter to do the rest of the job.


The tapered dowel cutter used to get the dowels down to the correct size to fit in the holes bored out with the taper plug cutter


The first of many plugs to come


The tapered dowel cutter in operation 


 

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