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28 December 2013 at 3:33 am #24685
I don’t really have a dowel plate. I do have a hunk of mild steel-about 3/16″ thick with holes drill in it, and I have a tap and die set…
What I do is rive my stock to as close to 1/2″ square as possible. I have tried with a drawknife to shave down the edges to get it to a sorta/kinda round shape, but I settled on the die method. I clamp a 1/2 die in it’s holder into my metal vice, then I chuck the length of stock into an electric drill with a 1/2 chuck. Whittle the tip of the stock a bit and insert it into the die, then run the drill and push it through. It is now more or less 1/2” roundish. Then I move on to the 7/16” die and run the dowel through. Lastly I pound the dowel through my home made dowel plate in the 3/8” hole. I have made 3/8″ dowels as long as 16″ with this method
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