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Thread: Multi Dowel Cutting Jig
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26th November 2012, 04:56 PM #1
Multi Dowel Cutting Jig
So how does one cut a piece of dowel (wood or metal) to length?
With something sharp hopefully, held by hand, in a vice or V-blocks and marked to length.
What if you require multiple sizes and multiple pieces say 20+ of two various lengths or even two diameters and two different lengths.
I have such a job to do at the moment cutting 48 x 10mm dia x 22mm Long plus 24 x 10mm dia x 32mm Long. A bit of a head scratch, a Jig would come in handy of course.
This was a quick jig inspired by Niki Avrahami gentleman woodworker who passed away some time ago. He inspired me through the many simple jigs he made and posted on many Woodies forums around the world including the "U-beauts Woodworkfourm".
Dowel Lenght Cutting Jig.jpg
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26th November 2012, 10:28 PM #2Taking a break
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I cut dowels on the bandsaw - pencil mark on the table for length and just zip through it.
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26th November 2012, 10:37 PM #3Intermediate Member
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This arvo I was resizing 10mm dowel down to 9.5mm using a battery drill and a file. To cut to length I just kept the drill turning and lowered a saw onto the dowel. I do not recommend this method but it did work
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27th November 2012, 10:18 AM #4
Both ideas you fellows have used I would also use but how many were you doing?
My BS has a 3tpi blade on it ATM and I could have used the scrollsaw much neater.
But to do 24 and 48 both different lengths at once I could have made a jig to do a larger amount in one go also.
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