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21st May 2011, 07:52 PM #1
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Quick dowels
I needed to (species) match some dowel for a recent project and a mate suggested this method..
(apologies if everyone already knows about it)
1...drill a series of holes in some 6mm flat bar steel
2..cut chosen wood slightly over dowel size..(eg..6mm dowel = 8mm blank)
3..place blank over the hole and bash the $h!`; out of it with a hammer..
4..Voila!!...matching dowel...
5..noice
what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?
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21st May 2011, 09:31 PM #2
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Yes that makes good sense Underfoot;
though one would have to ensure the steel plate was robust enough for the forcing.
Thanks for the tip.
Cheers, Crowie
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21st May 2011, 09:41 PM #3
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(apologies if everyone already knows about it)
Undie
, I'm sure D1 has read the thread that was running a while back on dowel plates etc. Suggest you go and check with her for the finer points discussed in the thread
Yes they are a great idea, but as I think I said in the old thread on some of my projects I have used up to 2m of colour matched dowel which makes a plate a bit slow. See if you can track that other thread down.
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21st May 2011, 09:45 PM #4
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21st May 2011, 10:32 PM #5
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sheesh
Originally Posted by Claw Hama
. See if you can track that other thread down...always the last to know...and I even did a search for 'dowel' so I didn't make a dill of myself 
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21st May 2011, 10:46 PM #6
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shi.....stuff happens
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21st May 2011, 11:12 PM #7
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There is always somebody willing to help you with that. Originally Posted by underfoot
.... I even did a search for 'dowel' so I didn't make a dill of myself
Cliff.
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22nd May 2011, 08:20 AM #8
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For me Cliff, I find it just comes naturaly
I love having natural ability at something
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