Just for Laura Fama, builder Extrodanaire!!!

   I hate the racket that all this building supply places have going on with "predrill bits". Over here in Southern California, the cheapest, not only in price, one you can get is $9.00! Redonkulous!!! and if you don't have the most steadiest hand, this is what happens....

Snaps right off in the wood, and the rest goes in the trash.
After buying 3 or 4 of these, I started experimenting with drill bits. After all, when I spoke to  Cobweb Carpenter down the street, he's about 150 years old, and knows everything there is to know about woodworking. In fact, he's the inventor of the nail, it's documented, on file somewhere...and in his mind, he's right up there after Jesus as the greatest carpenter ever...okay, back to the story about the predrill bit, Cobweb, well, he'd never heard of it, didn't know anything about this newfangled gadget.His words, not mine. How could this be?
   Was he splitting wood left and right? Or was I buying an unneccessary piece of crap...again.
 One night, woodwoodworking feverishly into the wee hours, I broke this sucker, but didn't want to stop what I was doing, so I had to figure out a quickie way to predrill. I'm sure everyone else on the planet already knows about this, but in case you don't....here goes, complete with snaps.




Excuse the bandaid...just drilled into the cuticle. Ouch!

Take a simple drill bit..One of the smaller ones that come in the kits. Not THE smallest. That's the size the always snaps on the predrill bit. This is what they use, connected to a piece of plastic ( the cheap ones) or metal.

Snug that sucker right into your drill. Getting the picture? The part of the drill that tightens around the bit, that's going into the wood, just a little bit, and that will make the circle indentation for your screw head...really, Laura, it works!

SEE!!!!!

Hope this helps my friend...

Hi Laura!! Sorry it's blurry, had to take it in the dark...or else JB would have me committed snapping at 03:30 am...an no, I never sleep :)