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46861 | "Bill Gustafson" <oldtools@t...> | 1998‑07‑25 | RE: Treenails and jowls |
What you are seeing here is most often as you correctly identified, making dowels - not pegs - These dowels are used in making rakes and the like. > I seem to recall Roy Underhill using a dowel plate for producing > pins on one of his shows. He split pieces of approximate size > with a froe, and then drove them through a drilled hole in a > steel plate. I think there were several sizes of holes so that > he could stage larger pieces to the proper size. > Hope this helps. > |
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