How to hide a self-tapping screw in wood

Sometimes there are situations when you need to fasten two boards or bars, but there is a desire to hide the screws with which the connection is made. Today I will show you a simple and quick way to make such a connection and make it as invisible as possible.

Will need

Required tools and materials:

• A simple pencil.
  
• Bit.
  
• Rubber mallet or mallet.
  
• Wood glue or PVA.
  
• Vise or other clamp.
  
• Drill and drill bit with countersink for wood.
  
• Screwdriver, self-tapping screws.
  
• A piece of wood or board.
  
• Scotch tape or plastic bag.

How to hide a self-tapping screw

On one of the boards to be joined, mark with a pencil the point where the self-tapping screw will be screwed in. At a distance of 15 mm from this point, a chisel is installed and a strip of wood about 50 mm long is removed. In this case, it is necessary that this piece remains connected to the board and a bent strip is obtained.


Then a hole is drilled with a drill for the self-tapping screw. It is better to use a countersink so that the head of the screw is recessed into the wood.

Using a self-tapping screw, two wooden parts are connected.



Now the groove and the removed strip of wood are generously lubricated with glue, after which a compressive force is applied to the area to be glued. I used a special clamp, but you can clamp the parts in a vice or simply load them with something heavy.


Note! To prevent the wood backing from sticking to my boards, I covered it with tape.

Once the glue had dried a bit (about 60-90 minutes), I removed the clamp and sanded the area with fine sandpaper. Due to the fact that the glue did not dry completely, the resulting wood dust filled all the cracks, so the seam became almost invisible!



Unfortunately, this method has a drawback: if you need to separate the connected elements, it will be very difficult to do so.

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