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Old 08-28-2014, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by NAR29996
You can make small dowels with this tool: http://www.micromark.com/jewelers-draw-plate,6942.html. I'm still honing my technique, but it seems that it should get you the dowels you need.


I bought one of these for that specific purpose but had less than satisfactory results. Unless the grain of the dowel is EXACTLY parallel to the sides, the dowel eventually gets too weak at the smaller diameters to be pulled through holes without breaking.
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