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I need some 3/8" dowels for two tops I was making for our two twin Grandkids. It's a 36 mile ride to Home Depot so I decide to save some gas and make a dowel jig to make my own dowels. You can make any size dowel you need with this method. This idea came from a YouTube video that I saw a while ago. it works and it's simple!





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Tony
That's another cool jig and here is a little device I use to make it easy to chuck the blank to the drill.

1/4"hex to 1/2" socket adapter and a socket to fit the blank ,saves time and won't chew up the end .
 

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Pretty cool, saved on favorites, thanks!
 

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Is that one of those sockets with a bunch of pins in it? That's a great idea! Thank buddy! I'll give that a try.
I'm going to turn all my stick scraps into all different size dowels with this method. No more waste!
Now I must find one of those sockets! :)
 

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Awesome project, love it. I'll have to start doing this, went and bought some dowels the other day and they were made in China! Seriously, we can't even make dowels in the US anymore? Well thanks woodshaver, I'll make my own for now on!
 

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Boy, that'll save me a lot in dowel $, and use up some of those small scrap pieces.
Thanks a bunch.
 

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That is just a deep socket from my socket set but your idea of one of those sockets that fit's different sizes maybe a better way yet ,they where on sale yesterday at Canadian tire .
 

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Hey guys! Don't you just love this site! The ideas just keep on coming!
Thanks for all the nice comments everyone!
 

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Thanks for sharing. I want to do some dowel through joints and wondered where I could get dowels in different woods. I think I found my source. It's my scrap pile and my band saw. Thanks again!
 

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You got the spirit and that is what this site should be all about and it helps us all to find better ways to do things through innovation and sharing our ways of doing things .
Thanks for your contributions .
 

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Slicker 'n snot! Thanks for posting this.

-Russ
 

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Love it, going into the faves
 

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Thanks for sharing, great jig at no cost.
 

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Good thinking.
 

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Might make some just to try it. Too cool.
 

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Hi Toni. This looks like a great idea. I have yet another quick and easy method, not necessarily better, but it does eliminate the need to plane off the corners first. I don't want to intrude on your blog Toni, and I do love this idea and I also like Kiefer's idea with the socket, so I hope you don't mind me giving you this link just for the fun of it. It always amazes me how many different ways there are to do the same thing.

http://lumberjocks.com/stefang/blog/14368
 

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Boy Tony you the man, I've so….. been wanting to make my own dowels and have been searching ways, I did some upon a u tube video about this very one but didn't give it much thought until I saw your post here, thanks so much for posting it.

Looks like hes using a 1/4" 4 tpi in that video? The carter stabilizer will handle blades from 1/8th up to 1/4" so I'm wondering if it would also work with the carter stabilizer as I wouldn't have to make any guide changes only swapping out my 3/16 to a 1/4 blade?
 

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Pretty cool Tony. I can see a need for this when I need wood dowels not available or need to match something.
Doug
 
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