Making Large Dowels With A Router
Making large dowels without a lathe woodworking jig dowel maker duration.
Making large dowels with a router. Making dowels with a homemade dowel plate duration. Tools and materials wood hardwood softwood heck even plywood will do if you laminate. Take your board to the table saw. If the length plus 3 dimension is more than one half the length of your router table fence clamp on a longer auxiliary fence joint and plane the stock into a square the same dimension as the diameter of the dowel needed.
Select material with straight. You ll need something for the jig 200mm x 45mm x 90mm used in my example you ll need larger for larger dowels something for the dowels some. You ll need something for the jig 200mm x 45mm. Flatten one face of your workpiece at the jointer then head to the planer to reduce its thickness to match the.
The key to successful dowel making is to begin with carefully prepared stock.