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#1 posted 859 days ago |
You want a Stanley #77 Dowel Maker I almost bought one of these when they were being sold by Stanley, but I didn’t Good luck in your search. Also available is the Veratas And the Dowel Plate I’ve got the Veratas Dowel maker The Master Kit. It is a little touchy making dowels. The grain has to be nice and straight. With any kind of cross grain the rod blows apart because of the torque on the drive end and the friction on the cutting end. But I’ve made a bunch of dowels for toy making. A couple hundred feet of 1/4” Sapele dowels and the same in Walnut. Also made some Holly dowels and some misc ones for other needs. On the sapele I have someone cut a bunch of 3/8” square rods and then get busy cutting. If they blow then throw the stock away and keep going. I’ve made some limited dowel rods in Blackwood for hinge pins is a shaker cabinet that I made that couldn’t used glue, screws or nails. So everything was using joints to hold the cabinet tobether. It’s posted in my projects. My blog show the drill plate to make the blackwood rods. I started at the large holes and moved down to the next small hole. The bur on the upside of the plate was left after the hole was drilled.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
