Quick dowels

[underfoot]

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

[crowie]

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

[Claw Hama]

(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.

[Claw Hama]

He ya go https://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/n...-plate-131521/

[underfoot]

. See if you can track that other thread down.

sheesh ..always the last to know...and I even did a search for 'dowel' so I didn't make a dill of myself

[Claw Hama]

shi.....stuff happens

[Cliff Rogers]

.... I even did a search for 'dowel' so I didn't make a dill of myself

There is always somebody willing to help you with that.

[Claw Hama]

For me Cliff, I find it just comes naturaly
I love having natural ability at something