trs80 wrote:
Without a lathe, how can I make 1" dowel rod from Oak?
[...]
Anyone done this?

I haven't done this myself, but after recently looking over the
tool porn catalog from Lee Valley--I noticed they have an interesting
looking device[1] for doing this. From the description, it sounds
like you can either use this tool by hand or with a drill to
turn the stock.

NOTE: I don't own this tool, and I haven't used one, so I don't know
if they work well or not. But being that it's a Veritas tool, it's
probably pretty good.

[1]: http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...at=1,180,42288

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On May 9, 5:08 pm, "Michael Faurot"
wrote:
trs80 wrote:
Without a lathe, how can I make 1" dowel rod from Oak?
[...]
Anyone done this?

I haven't done this myself, but after recently looking over the
tool porn catalog from Lee Valley--I noticed they have an interesting
looking device[1] for doing this. From the description, it sounds
like you can either use this tool by hand or with a drill to
turn the stock.

NOTE: I don't own this tool, and I haven't used one, so I don't know
if they work well or not. But being that it's a Veritas tool, it's
probably pretty good.

[1]:http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...at=1,180,42288

Rotary plane, variation on the stail engine, similar to a pencil
sharpener,
itself a variation on a plane or a stail engine, whichever you
prefer. This
method is nice because you can adjust the dowel diameter +/- a
few thousandths of an inch according to desired snugness of
fit. Don't own the Veritas (not bad for the price), but do own a
homemade version complete with home tempered Starrett
O-1 steel cutter, made for cutting wooden mouthpiece plugs for
PVC flutes. Works fine once the blade depth is set just light
of taking paper thin shavings.