Plugging and re-drilling birdseyes? Micro-precision felt cutter, for tiny pieces in butts?

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Thu Aug 23 19:50:38 MDT 2007


>    This Ivers and Pond action makes me wonder if
> someone oughtn't come up with a nifty system of
> plugging and redrilling the birdseyes ??? 

A center pin a half size under what you intend to ultimately 
use, placed in the hole as a sizing mandrel. Flood with CA, 
eyeball the pin for square and level, and hit it with the 
accelerator. Push the sizing pin out, clean up the "flashing" 
and press on with the pinning.

Ron N


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