"BillR" wrote in message
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I made one but it wouldn't work. Do I need a unicorn or will the ashes from
a phoenix work?

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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I'm now finding it _very_ easy to turn these long thin tapers.
I made a "trapping plane"



It _is_ a dowel, after all.
http://web.onetel.com/~ashemcrafts/p...ping_plane.htm
Or drive it through a plate, lay in tapered V-block and scrape the taper.