Placing a screw close to the edge of a piece of wood Pocket holes are good practice anytime you are using screws to join wood to wood, but most folks use them as needed in situations where a screw is more likely to split the wood they are using. Pocket hole joinery is essentially just drilling a counterbore (more on that a little lower) pilot hole at a specific angle. Pilot holes are simply holes drilled in before driving a screw into a piece of wood. The beast! Standing structure to hold a variety of multi-media artwork. This was put together with pocket holes in some places and wood screws in others, and so, lots of pilot holes. A deceptively simple build, but it involved a few of those little lessons that some folks newer to woodworking might not have learned yet, such as the importance of pilot holes. On a recent project I built for a gallery show (a 12’ x 8’ standing structure) I thought about pilot holes and where we learn the little yet oh so important things. ![]() I still remember when I first learned what they were after years of putting screws into wood and splitting it. shop class, your grandmother, job training, YouTube, etc.) you probably didn’t learn about pilot holes off the bat. ![]() Unless you learned woodworking in some sort of (formal or informal) structured way (e.g. Pilot holes are one of those things that is both totally mundane and standard in woodworking and also magical the first time you learn about them.
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