• Nednarb44@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If they’re fairly short, you could make a v block jig and drive it with a drill, and use a chisel on the side you want to round over. There’s a vid/gif I saw recently of a gentleman doing it to make the dowels themselves after knocking the corners down with a hand plane

  • drofenvy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Could you use a jig to hold the piece vertically and clamp to keep from rotating, with the to be rounded part pointing down and a router table with roundover bit?

    • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was thinking horizontally. I’d hesitate to do it vertically since gravity would be pulling the stock into the bit. If anything went wrong it’s not exactly fail-safe.

  • UlvainEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    A 1/2" dowel might fit in the shank of a standard hand drill… If so, I’d use the dowel in the hand drill and would round off the other end against a belt or oscillating sander, basically.