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HAND DOWEL MAKER

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HAND DOWEL MAKER

morley tobin

>mANY YEARS AGO i WAS SHOWN A HAND TOOL DESIGNED TO MAKE ROUND DOWELLS FROM A SQUARE PIECE OF WOON.

iT HAD A TAPERED HOLE, TWO HANDLES AND A CUTTER LIKE A PLANE.

cAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE i CAN FIND OUT ABOUT THIS TOOL.

mORLEY tOBIN

aDELAIDE, sOUTH aUSTRALIA.

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Andy Parsons, London (UK)

>Do you mean a rounding plane:-

http://www.crafts32.fsnet.co.uk/prices.htm.

Not sure if they will ship that far south

AndyP

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Morley - you could be looking for a Stanley 77

Andrew F in Australia

>dowel cutter, not plane.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Have a look at this one  *LINK*

Paul Barnard

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Lee Valley Dowel Maker

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Paul Brandley

>I've been looking for information on a variation of that, a tapered tennon. I came up with this address from an old post on the Pond:

http://www.pbs.org/wws/howto/images/e2104Rounderplane.pdf

Paul

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www.ashemcraft.com should do it!

Catharine C. Kennedy- Chatham Center, NY

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Catharine C. Kennedy- Chatham Center, NY

>http://www.crafts32.fsnet.co.uk/ may work better

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