This is exactly what I was looking for. Some dowel making jigs require welding the dye to a plate and I don’t weld nor do I know anyone that does so I’ve been searching for similar DIY alternatives. So glad I stumbled upon your video :-). Thank you!
I tried this with hardwood and found I mostly just made a wood splitter. I was real proud of how clean an edge I got on my pipe end with the grinding wheel. Then I discovered the hardwood distorted the edge badly. My 3/8” pegs were no more than 3/4” long before the hardwood just split around the pipe. Sharpening the threads off of the pipe makes the pipe end take on a conical shape which encourages the splitting problem. If I figure out how to grind the pipe from the inside out, I might get less splitting. I even tried this on a green piece of American holly with the same results. Looks he might have been using dimensional pine. I prefer hardwood for doweling so I haven’t tried softwood yet. There is a chance I did too much sharpening. He removed just a few threads whereas I smoothed off most of them thinking the smoothness would help. Perhaps that was a bad idea.
I use green wood when making dowels. The pine I used in this video was dried pine. But like you, I prefer to use hardwood for certain projects. I found its easier to make dowels from green oak.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Some dowel making jigs require welding the dye to a plate and I don’t weld nor do I know anyone that does so I’ve been searching for similar DIY alternatives. So glad I stumbled upon your video :-). Thank you!
Simple, cheap , and works really well
Awesome!
Great idea! In fact, it's such a great idea that you now have another subscriber, after watching just this one video (so far).
I'll be using this when I build the hobbit house. I'm gonna timber frame it.
I tried this with hardwood and found I mostly just made a wood splitter. I was real proud of how clean an edge I got on my pipe end with the grinding wheel. Then I discovered the hardwood distorted the edge badly. My 3/8” pegs were no more than 3/4” long before the hardwood just split around the pipe. Sharpening the threads off of the pipe makes the pipe end take on a conical shape which encourages the splitting problem. If I figure out how to grind the pipe from the inside out, I might get less splitting. I even tried this on a green piece of American holly with the same results. Looks he might have been using dimensional pine. I prefer hardwood for doweling so I haven’t tried softwood yet. There is a chance I did too much sharpening. He removed just a few threads whereas I smoothed off most of them thinking the smoothness would help. Perhaps that was a bad idea.
I use green wood when making dowels. The pine I used in this video was dried pine. But like you, I prefer to use hardwood for certain projects. I found its easier to make dowels from green oak.
Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.@@uncledavesfrontier6846
thanks
That’s cool. Never thought of that
Gotta simplify everything...lol
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 plus the wood you used. That must have set you back $1000 at least just for the wood lol
@@marshallcaudle3321 lol
I did that and it didn’t work well. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t sharpen the pipe enough or what. I did it with a 3/4 inch pipe.
I sharpened mine on a grinding wheel. But i got it down to a fine edge.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 ok thank you
Great idea!
Isa bee use I got dat from forged hammers agen my cuttin bushins cause dats how Wes roll man🎃
So are you building your cabin
I will when the sawmill gets here. Trying to get lots of other projects done