I learned how a familiar carpenter masks screws in a tree. I have never seen such an interesting way!

Once, talking with his acquaintance carpenter Arkady Semenovich at his house, we started talking about how to hide a self-tapping screw in a tree so that it cannot be seen. Up to this point, I knew only one way to do it.

If there was a need to hide the self-tapping screw in the board (timber), then at the beginning I slightly sunk it into the wood, having previously made a countersink.

And then he simply covered the screw with a putty of a suitable color. Of course, this method has several disadvantages (which everyone knows about), but still this option looks better than an open self-tapping screw.

After listening to me, the experienced carpenter smiled and said: "Let's go to my workshop, show you how I mask the screws in the tree. You haven't seen such a way yet!". As it turned out, Arkady Semyonich was just engaged in the manufacture of decorative boxes. “Look, no putty,” he said, gesturing toward one of the boxes. Once again Arkady Semyonitch was able to surprise me.

The screws were masked in a rather interesting way, which I will now tell you about.

To begin with, we take a drill with a diameter of 8 mm and, stepping back 5-6 mm, glue a piece of electrical tape. It is advisable that the drill was specifically for wood (but the usual one is also suitable).

Then we drill holes to a given depth (electrical tape will just limit this depth) in the places where the screws will be screwed in.

You should get such neat holes with the same depth.

We twist the screws into the holes made and immediately connect all the parts of any structure. The beginning resembles, as is the case with the putty. It turns out at the first stage we just need to drown the screws into the wood, but to a greater depth.

And now everything is easier than ever. We need ordinary furniture dowels and PVA glue. Lubricate the dowels with glue and insert them into the holes with self-tapping screws.

Then, when the glue dries, it remains to cut the dowels with a hacksaw and lightly sand the board to smooth out the protrusions.

The result is simply wonderful! If you pick up dowels of the same wood species (or matching in color), then they will practically not be visible against the general background of wood. And if you use dowels from other types of wood, you can get quite interesting solutions and give the product a certain zest.