LocalOak
Established Member
Hi
I plan to build, for Christmas, an oak dolls' cot for my daughter and want it to look like her own cot, which has thick vertical dowel bars in a frame for sides. So I am planning to use 8mm or so dowel for the bars but have discovered that oak dowel is pretty hard to come by.
I have g**gled and come across here and here but I don't have any experience with either of these companies.
Does anyone know of a reliable place that could supply me with about 8 metres of 8-10 mm oak dowel?
I did dabble with the idea of this or this but I'm not sure I have the time and desire to gain the skills required to produce the 36 220mm dowels I need. Yes I know sharpening a pencil or pushing something through a hole aren't particularly difficult skills. But I also know from bitter experience that setting out to make something from scratch takes me much much longer than I ever expect. And I'd have to spend time ripping down the oak stock ready to dowel etc. etc.
Any thoughts gratefully received.
TIA
Toby
I plan to build, for Christmas, an oak dolls' cot for my daughter and want it to look like her own cot, which has thick vertical dowel bars in a frame for sides. So I am planning to use 8mm or so dowel for the bars but have discovered that oak dowel is pretty hard to come by.
I have g**gled and come across here and here but I don't have any experience with either of these companies.
Does anyone know of a reliable place that could supply me with about 8 metres of 8-10 mm oak dowel?
I did dabble with the idea of this or this but I'm not sure I have the time and desire to gain the skills required to produce the 36 220mm dowels I need. Yes I know sharpening a pencil or pushing something through a hole aren't particularly difficult skills. But I also know from bitter experience that setting out to make something from scratch takes me much much longer than I ever expect. And I'd have to spend time ripping down the oak stock ready to dowel etc. etc.
Any thoughts gratefully received.
TIA
Toby
