M&T Tip & Metal Drill Guide 2 Rnd Dowels
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If you’ve got several – or a lot – of mortise and tenon joints to glue up all at the same time this first tip may save you some grief (back up to the previous page to see just how much grief it can save you). The other tip on this page -using a metal drill bit sizer plate to make ” less than round and not the nominal diameter” dowels round and to a specific diameter. You could buy a LN Dowling Plate, but I’d rather spend the extra $35 on some other tool – or even some wood.
http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/DasBench/CBbench19.html
charlie b
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Good tips, Charlie,
Here's another one: For pinned M&T joints, I don't want the dowels to show as simply the ends of "machined" cylinders of wood. I leave the dowel ends a bit proud of the surface of the mortise piece and pare them down, with a very sharp chisel, leaving a faceted rim and a raised central area (looks nice), or I use octaganal dowels (handmade). Also looks nice.
I once tried using square dowels, but I just couldn't get them to look good.
Rich
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