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In video number two of this pine chest restoration series, I was showing you how I was re-gluing
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some things. You may recall that this strip had come detached from the top and that's
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because the grain of the top runs in this direction and the grain of the strips runs
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in this direction so it's really a design flaw. The top's going to expand and contract
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seasonally and the length of this strip is not going to change so it broke the glue joint there
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I glued it back together again. There's really no satisfactory way of, no perfect way of fixing this
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so to help things stay together more in the future, in addition to the very small nails
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that this was originally assembled with, I've used some screws here, flathead wood screws
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countersunk in to hold it together. Nothing too fancy there but the drill bit that I used
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to make holes for these screws is kind of interesting and I thought you might like to see it
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It's kind of an adjustable bit set. I have a whole collection here. I happened to get
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buy this from Lee Valley Tools but this is the one I used. I don't know if you can see here but
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the drill bit itself is tapered which is useful when you're driving wood screws because it creates
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a wider hole up here so that this part of the screw and the top part of the threads don't
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grip in the first part of the hole but because the drill bit tapers, the threads of the screw down
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here get a grip in the wood. So that's one interesting thing going on. The other is this
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countersink attachment here. This can vary in height depending on where this collar
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is locked onto the drill bit and as you can see I have adjusted it to fit this size of screw
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which is as long as the wood is deep. It actually has poked through very slightly
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very slightly in a few places. Here's one of them but that's no problem. I'm going to be
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sanding that off because don't forget we're going to apply a milk paint finish to this
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and if there's minor imperfections that's fine. I'll be explaining how that milk paint finish sticks to the existing finish here which isn't usually the case but for
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now I just thought I'd show you these strips and this anchoring system. I mean nothing fancy but
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it's just creating a more solid foundation for the finished piece that we hope to have
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