Making Wooden Dowels the Easy Way

by marcello bianchi in Workshop > Woodworking

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Making Wooden Dowels the Easy Way

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Finished dowel after sanding while spinning in drill.

Cutting Dowel Blanks

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Cut dowels blanks to size bigger than the final size, I used my band saw but just as easy on the table saw

Dowel Plate

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Start by roughly punching blanks through plate by hammering through larger hole than finish size.

Drilling

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Drill the dowel gradually through holes to finish size

Drilling

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Ok Now insert rough dowel into your drill chuck and drill through plate gradually using smaller hole the holes are serrated so the dowels is sawn to correct thickness

Size

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Check final size if you want to increase glueing area leave the dowel in its rough state or just leave out the drilling step.I'm awaiting a piece of steel plate to make a video on making the dowel plate,please subscribe to my Youtube channel:-

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