What tool do I need...

[MrDantastic]

Hey everyone,

I would like to make a small rhombus shaped hole in a piece of wood I have, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to do it. I would like the shape to be no more than a quarter of an inch long.

I tried drilling a hole through the wood, and then using a dremel bit to work it out from there, but that didn't work too well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do to make this work? Thanks.

Dan

[BobD]

How deep does the hole need to be? To be perfectly honest, in a case like this, I'd reach for an exacto or a 1/4"-wide skew chisel...

Bob

[kaiserb]

Is it a regular or irregular rhomboid?


The best tool would probably be a skew #1 double bevel chisel. With a fairly shallow bevel.

Another nice tool would be an offest single bevel grounding tool to clean out the bottom and corners

[Ashbys]

Depending on the depth and the size and the angles your looking for you could use a v tool .

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Ash

[AlArchie]

Depending on the size of it and the depth you need, you could drill the center out with a forstner bit(several sizes could get you up into the corners a ways, then clean up with those reomended earlier.

Al

[MrDantastic]

I tried the exacto knife since that is the only thing I have at my parents house, and it worked very well. I didn't remember that they were so sharp! Thanks everyone! I will be sure to post pictures of what I'm working on when I get back to school.

-Dan