Ives":1ehp45sk said:
I don't think I have the tools to make my own, I only have a scroll saw and bandsaw.
Hi Ives,
There is another way to make dowels..
In a DVD on the Taunton Finewoodworking site, one of the guys was making an oak dining-table. He cut oak stock on his bandsaw, to the correct square section, and pared off one end slightly. Then he hammered the square section dowels through a 'dowel-plate' to make them cylindrical.
You can buy cheaper dowel-plates than the Lie Nielsen variety BTW, and as long as you make your stock, so it's large enogh to become properly round, this works a treat. Sizes in my dowel plate range from 1/4" up to 3/4" .
At a pinch you could get someone in the engineering line to make you a plate for the larger sections.
Give it a try and it might solve your problem.
HTH
John
