[pianotech] Making dowels

[paul bruesch]

This video<http://www.stewmac.com/tsarchive/ts0176.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ts0176>from
Stewart-MacDonald demonstrates another way to size and round a dowel.
 And before everyone reacts with "But it's end-grain" (like I did), watch
it to the end...

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Jim Ialeggio <jim at grandpianosolutions.com>wrote:

>
> Sometimes one needs a true round dowel.   The dowels you purchase unless
> they are freshly milled will be out of round, sometimes significantly,
> because of unequal tangential & radial dimensional changes. As well, some
> mass market dowels are run on a 4 sided molder which does not produce a
> round dowel right off the machine.
>
> One doesn't always needs a dead round dowel, but when you do it's not a
> cost thing...this is one of the only ways to get it.
>
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