Way to go, nice find! Cool tool. KFF said:. Pacer01 Supporter Supporter. Nice score! That's a heck of an old tool Jim L.

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Often covered in rust and grime. This technology is centuries old. If you take a block of wood, drill a hole the same size as the dowel and drive a wood screw at right angles to the hole penetrating the hole a bit adjustable by moving screw in or out you can create a glue groove in the dowel by passing it thru the hole several times. It would never come to my mind to split wood against the grain.

How is that even possible? Sometimes I drive without using the brake pedal, down shift manual , observe trafic flow, anticipate. My journey to work is 15miles. My current record is just over 11 miles without touching the brake pedal. No touching the brake pedal. I memorised the light sequences. Yes, the journey was that boring. If you leave more than a car length in front of you, someone will cut in front of you forcing you to hit the break over, and over, and over.

By splitting the wood as opposed to sawing the wood the resultant billet which will be turned into a dowel will be straighter and stronger. Technically rip sawing is also with the grain. Bridgetdaddy Guide Bushclass II. My arm hurts just watching the video. Jakuka Guide. Nice find! Looks to be in stellar condition too. A Revloution in Dowel Making Prior to the development of the Stanley benchtop dowel and rod turning machine, craftsmen cut wood to the approximate size needed.

Then they pounded the rough, oversized stock through the tapered, circular hole in a metal dowel-sizing plate. The resulting dowel proved that you really can fit a square peg into a round hole--if you use a big enough hammer.

This crude method worked well enough for short joinery dowels, but rods had to be turned on a lathe. It not only made rods of any length, but also of whatever wood the craftsman needed. The Pocket Hole Jig Vs Dowel Jig Nz cutter heads themselves are similar to the Scottish wooden rounder, which dates back to the 18th century.

Stanley introduced its eggbeater-type mechanism in , adapting it for use with both the dowel machine and several breast drills. On the dowel maker, the metal gear-driven cutter head rotates around the stock, shaving it to a cylinder much as a pencil sharpener shaves wood to a point.

Cast iron and 15" long, the earlier dowel machines were coated with a hard black varnish japanned. Later models were blue.

Joined Jul 2, Messages 3, Likes 17, That is awesome sir! That's a heck of an old tool Would probably have saved lots of time over the previous methods. Jakuka said:. Jim L.

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