Snappy Tools Plug Cutter, 3/4

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.

I purchased this cutter to make plugs for a series of cutting boards I am making. The cutter performs admirably and gives a nice clean cuts but I have been through 2 of these cutter in about 4 months under light use. I have begun cutting only 3-4 at a time because heat build up seems to be the reason the first two failed. I am cutting Osage Orange and Walnut primarily, both hardwoods but not beyond what I would expect a cutting tool to be capable of.

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.

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.

Did exactly what I needed it to do. Which was cut a bunch of plugs for a wood floor. I used this and the smaller 3-pack. I highly recommend a drill press. I want to say you NEED a drill press, but I know some of you will be all, “this guy is an idiot, I did it freehand.” And maybe you did. The smaller ones you can get away with it, but even then you’re going to wander, and if you a have super smooth surface and plenty of material and time, then yeah. But this one, forget it. My only complaint is that it can’t quick change and I was drilling many different sizes.

Liked the ease of producing plugs.

It worked fine it worked fine

I liked the sharpness, weight and durability of this excellent tool. I will buy more as needed.

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.

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.