You really enjoy them. You are so creative and I appreciate and appreciate all my video fans for creating. You are truly a woodworker.Evolution so far. I am more than your perseverance and care for what you show. keep up the good read..

Today I made a bunch of quarter inch dowels with the jig. They are more finicky than 3/8″ dowels. I have found that the smaller stock size will shatter if I try to pull the piece from the drill chuck like I do with 3/8″ dowels. Quarter inch dowels don’t take the stress off either. I just cut off the square part.

After translating it worked very well. I made an extra set of blocks as my first set slipped and went back to the quarter inch exit hole only 3/8″ starting hole. With quarter inch dowels the tolerance is much more selective. Avoid buying dowels from a few stores, using only scrap oak, maple, cedar, walnut I went to buy over a hundred dowels.

I thought this was a great design and I built it, initially the dowels turned out to be rickety. When I marked the high point of my blade, I noticed that it was in the straight up position. Later, when using the jig to make the dowel, the blade was lower. My saw rotates as I raise the blade, so the high point was actually further back. Once I adjusted the mark on the fence to correspond to the new peak, I worked like a champ. I ate you while sharing your design.I finished mine and made 5/16, 3/8 and 1/2 inch dowels out of oak and it all turned out great! Now you need to buy hardwood dowels to live! happy birthday..