Thread: Where to buy 20mm dowel rods?

You could always turn them down to the required diameter once you have cut them to length. If you haven't go a lathe someone in the turning forum could do it for you.

Ive seen people make them by drilling holes into steel and hammer pieces of timber through the holes until you get desired length - worth a youtube if you cannot find them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CG1XO08ByA

I didn't want to make them, time constraints and too lazy, but I keep hitting brick walls. I don't have a lathe so maybe I could find someone who has. I'm staggered that there isn't a retail place that you can buy these.

Have you tried this company?
Dowel | Dowel.com.au

It is a shame you have already drilled 20mm holes as it would have been easy to buy a forstner bit or what ever to suit whatever size dowels you can get off the shelf
If you don't mind a few extra holes in your bench you could still do this and save you a lot of fuss

Just ring a wood turner and order as many as you want in what ever timber you like .

Buy the 22mm diameter dowel, attach it (somehow) to an ordinary drill chuck and sand it to the required size.

Is 19mm too small....Bunnings have Porta Tas Oak 19mm dowel

$10.80 for 1.8m length that can be cut to size.


OR

Put in an order to this mob in NZ

https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/south...-1-8m/p/637985

There is nothing hard about planing the corners off and then planing again a 20 x 20 square into a round with a bit of scraping at the end. I reckon I could hand plane one up and then scrape it to a round 20mm in the time it takes to start my car and get to the front gate. Ive got a long driveway though

Originally Posted by Lappa

Have you tried this company?
Dowel | Dowel.com.au

Yep!

Originally Posted by skot

Is 19mm too small

Yep!

I got sick of looking and I've bitten the bullet and bought ready made dogs from this site The Yellowbox Shed – 3D Printing, CNC machining and timber bits

Top quality, well priced and they have everything I want. So for a small price I've saved a lot of stuffing about in time and effort.

Thanks for the replies.

if you don't have a lathe and still want to make your own then Veritas® Dowel Maker - Lee Valley Tools is an option.

but for a small quantity, a shop built variation of this tool
Veritas® Dowel and Tenon Cutters - Lee Valley Tools
works a treat. Use hardwood and a plane blade.