Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Need to find a Tool:

24 January 2013

Re: [DIY] Need to find a Tool:

I'll be sure to let everyone know how well it works once I get it. I sometimes need long fluted dowels to re-glue and restore window frames, chairs, and other pieces of furniture. If they aren't fluted they will act as pistons and actually split the wood. I have a glue gun that is adapted from a small grease gun and I can use to put glue into joints under high pressure. Using a lathe I can drill a small hole down the center of the dowel and then once I have driven it in place shoot the glue down the center and let it completely penetrate the surrounding area. I don't use it very ofter as it is kind of a bear to clean up, but when needed I've never found anything to replace it.

Dale in the Flatlands.

Steve Wilson wrote:

I saw that dowel fluting jig that Dale ordered but I didn't think it had flutes on it. It looked like the cutters were smooth by the picture. Good thing someone else looked closer than I did.
Steve

On 1/23/2013 12:31 PM, subprong wrote:

I had no idea such a thing had existed. I was intrigued by your design illustration and started to look things up based on your description. Initially I saw something called "dowel plates". I watched some great videos of folks creating dowels (out of sections of wood that they had cut on a bandsaw) via these plates . I thought that was the coolest thing ever. One of my favorite shows was something that had once aired on PBS. A woodworker would create projects out of what were essentially man-made tools. Everything was from scratch. It reminded me of that show.

As for the keywords, I don't know how it came about. I read your description and started looking at the plate pages and I think the ebay page that Steve had sent. It was Dowel and Flute that resulted in the initial link.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Dale S <dalu@hbcomm.net> wrote:

Thank You so much. Just placed my order for one and with shipping it was less than $21.00. There are lots of times when I need a dowel or two that is longer than the standard 1 or 1 1/2 inch but the pressure lock from inserting a regular smooth dowel means I need to do something to score the sides. This will be just what the doctor ordered. I don't know what you used for a key search word but it had to be one I overlooked.

Dale in the Flatlands.
subprong wrote:

http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/dowelformer.aspx

Better photo here...

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/workshop-&-power-tool-accessories/pocket-hole-&-dowel-jigs/dowel---formers/DKX29/dowel-maker

and here..

http://www.webstore.com/urlcache/cache_0_0_0_httpi1206photobucketcomalbumsbb453Jakemart2030212%20Batch%20030312%20Base%20SKUgm5324%20030312-196fDSC03017jpg.jpg