How To Make Dowels Router
First drill a pilot hole through a 2 4 the same diameter as the dowel you want to produce.
How to make dowels router. Start the router and feed the stock into the bit at a moderate pace. Here s how to make dowels of any size with a simple router setup. The size of the bit determines the size of the dowel. Adjust your setup as needed.
Once you ve got your block and have marked out all. Choosing the dowel bit. Wood hardwood softwood heck even plywood will do if you laminate. Rout 1 in on each edge of the test piece and check its fit in a hole of the desired diameter drilled in scrap.
Chuck a core box bit in your router rout a recess in the front of the 2 4 just above the hole and clamp the router in position. Position the bit with the pilot bearing flush with the fence and the bottom of the radius flush with the table. In our project we needed 3 4 diameter dowels so we used a 3 4 bull nose bit. Bit fence set up.
Install in the router a round over bit whose radius is one half the diameter of the intended dowel. The bull nose bit is used to make dowels. Use a push stick to advance the blank up to the first featherboard see photo 6. Once it reaches this point step around to the outfeed side of the router table and pull the dowel the rest of the way through.