Filling holes in doors after removing Yale surface locks

No, plates, which you don't want. You'd get a lot further if you told us whether the doors are wood, mdf or eggbox, painted or varnished

NT

If you have a router you could make nice really long wood finger plates that would go up most of the stile of the door - then mount your decorative plates over those at the usual height.

Even make 4 plates for each side of the door - hinge and latch side, top and bottom - and they will look like fancy mouldings if stained/painted to match the door.

Owain

The search string isn't difficult, "making large dowels" should work. Square or octagonal stock fed through a hole in a block that has a router bit running inside (perpendicular to stock and offset) and an exit hole the desired size - turn stock whilst feeding in. Requires rough sums to start with and then some trial and error but makes reasonable dowels, any size you want. You could probably do something similar on a saw table but I haven't tried.

I have no idea what you mean by 'plates', push or otherwise, but I'm sure you're right that I don't want them.

Wake-up at the back!! Check 'blocks to suit with the face grain matching the door grain', 'a future option of stripping the existing door paint'?

OK, got it thanks. Copying the search results url isn't difficult either.

Yup you can make any size / shape template you like so long as it has no radius that is smaller than that of your largest guide bush.

That's fine. The attraction of a non round one is making the lines less easy to see. This matters not much on a painted door, but if trying to do a near invisible repair on a polished hardwood it can make more of adifference.

In reality if you already have a guide bush, then you can make the rest. Pick a cutter, and then make a ring of wood (or whatever) to go round it, and sand it down[1] so that the offset it introduces is exactly twice the diameter of the chosen cutter. Make a template and sand/file smooth on the internal edges.

Better looking results with a chisel, rather than a router?

Check out some of Izzy Swan's crazy table saw jigs. e.g:

or bowling balls:

The circle sanding technique I described elsewhere in the thread can do tapered circles if you tilt the plane of the sanding bed when taking it to the sander.

SIMPLE:

That doesn't tell us whether the wood is wood or veneered eggbox. Sigh.

NT

Robert

It's advisable to read the whole question before engaging both feet...

"The holes for the barrels appear to have been drilled with one of those spade-type wood bits". Can you advise the best way to use those in egg-boxes?

"routing out the holes to clean them up seems straight-forward". Do you know of a special kind of router for veneered egg boxes?

Phil

Interesting. Thanks for that.

Phil

Interesting. Thanks for that. I Googled "32mm diameter wood 'plugs/disks'" and it would seem I'm not alone with this task!!

Phil