Your opinion

[rocke1]

I'm building a solid white oak vanity for the bathroom and having completed the carcase and doors turned two knobs. Turned the knobs very carefully and sized a 3/8 in spigot for mounting using a 3/8 open end wrench to get it just right. Now set up the mark5 and drill a hole in each door, set to fence to get the hole centered , and from my bit drawer grabed a forstner for the hole.

Well I grabed a 1/2 inch bit, now what . Get a 1/2 inch dowell and drill a 3/8 hole in the end and make a sleve to fit. OK works now.

Is the problem being 76 years old or just another rush to get the job done?

Your opinion please.

Rock
Virginia Beach Va.

[beeg]

I would say RUSHING, would be the cause. Do you have a plug cutter? I think I would have used that, instead of a dowel.

[rocke1]

Thanks, hoped it wasn't a senior moment. My 1/2 plug cutter was broken and the was a good fit.

Rock

[drl]

Hey we all make mistakes no matter what the age. I say the sign of a good woodworker is being able to cover one's mistakes so no one else knows it is there.
I would agree with beeg and use a plug cutter so you can use the same wood and grain orientation. Glue it in place and then re-drill. Only you will know.
Regards,
Dwight

[dusty]

You have a lathe. Turn a plug to fit the oversize hole. Insert it and you are back to the beginning.

As to the cause. I doubt it has anything to do with age! Why? Because there are a lot of mistakes made by crafters that are a lot younger.

It also might not have anything to do with haste. I contend that many mistakes are made by people who are really taking their time. Mistakes are just that - "Mistakes". Some can be avoided but not all.

The best way I know to avoid making mistakes is "Don't do anything".

I just want to believe that when I am 76 I'll still be making saw dust - maybe more than I am making now.

[judaspre1982]

My motto is that's why they make erasers on the end of pencils. In my shop I have a lot of pencils with no erasers:D .

[Ed in Tampa]

I'm building a solid white oak vanity for the bathroom and having completed the carcase and doors turned two knobs. Turned the knobs very carefully and sized a 3/8 in spigot for mounting using a 3/8 open end wrench to get it just right. Now set up the mark5 and drill a hole in each door, set to fence to get the hole centered , and from my bit drawer grabed a forstner for the hole.

Well I grabed a 1/2 inch bit, now what . Get a 1/2 inch dowell and drill a 3/8 hole in the end and make a sleve to fit. OK works now.

Is the problem being 76 years old or just another rush to get the job done?

Your opinion please.

Rock
Virginia Beach Va.

Rock
If the problem is because you are 76 then it must be contagious and I must have been around a lot of 76 year old people because I have been making mistakes like that since I got into wood working many years ago and I still ain't 76. :D

My best guess it is due to Murphy's law, "If it can go wrong it will."

[a1gutterman]

Hi Rock,

Are telling me that you never made mistakes like that until you turned 76??? Oh my; that means I will be much worse then I am now, when I turn 76!!! :eek: