How To Make A Dowel Center Finder
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2016
- Find the center of a dowel in two blows of a hammer. Hits the sweet spot every time!
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You smarty. High five on another great video Chris!
+April Wilkerson - Loving those high fives :)
I've never needed to find the centre of a dowel but one day, when the time comes, I'll be ready!
+Robin Lewis - Always prepared :D
Free hand line was AMAZINGLY good!
+Tyler G - haha, I was so surprised
Outstanding! Bob
Smart and useful little tool! Thanks for sharing!
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Indeed, very well executed. and those cuts from your mitre are envy-worthy :-).
Lee Valley is shocked...but not defeated. He put his best thinkers on an unseen project : Improve what has been improved....."Gentlemen" he said. "I want this center to be found in only one motion...! Moved!!
Simple, and it works! Awesome video!
Sweet! Simple little jig that looks super useful!
+Carter Wilson Workshop - It really is. You should see the number of dowels ends I had to cut off and scrap before I made this thing.
Now here's something that's simple and smart the way I like it.... now I have to make me one to find the middle of ... well. Just a bigger one! Thanks for sharing!
+Not Just Sawdust - How big do you need it? What are you going to use it for?
+Toolify among other things... round (cheap store) plastic "cheese" cuttingboards (usable for all kinds of jigs) So easy option to make your little jig bigger so it takes around 25 cm.
🖐🏻very nice. I liked glueing up one piece and cutting it in half. Great job.
+Brian Prusa - Thanks! Glad you liked that :)
Very nice and useful. Thanks for sharing!
Hey I am sure you have been told other people have done this, so what, I like the fact that it was a short assembly and precise tool. I would have stumbled over something sooner or later but you did it. Good for you Kriss
+Chuck Hart - Yeah, I found Jack's video after making this. Kinda feel bad. Thanks though :)
+Toolify Don't feel bad it was an honest video and you did it well. Move on you got more ideas I am sure.
Thanks for sharing. Great idea and cleverly made.
+Jeff Harmed - Always my pleasure!
Gran idea. Artista
Hey Kriss,
thank you for sharing this great jig!
Cheers
Thomas
+HolzwurmTom - My pleasure, Tom!
I don't do much with dowels (yet) but this is a super simple and awesome tool. I might have to make one just for the fun of it.
+Keith Brown - OMG! Yes, it's so much fun to build ;)
you have some nice tools there,bet it makes working a lot less frustrating.
Simple but affective, nicely done:)
+Shop built - Thanks!
that's great, so simple but very accurate
Simple but effective. Thanks.
Simple and awesome!
+Volodymir Evdokimov - Thanks :)
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Excellent idea and very easy to do but what top this is it is very accurate. Good work and video as well. Thank you for sharing
+Tarek Ammar - My pleasure!
Great idea!
Great tool Kriss!
+AdventuresInDIY - Thanks!
Just what I was looking for. Thank you.
Awesome, but I would have screwed the two halves together. What happens if you need to change the blade at some point?
awesome coincidence the two x's meet up lol . I need to cut a flagpole in half and put a bit of threaded rod in one 1/2 .and a nut to accept it and the other half for storage and ease of Transport so this will make doing that job so much easier thank you ...ps your a.very impressive young woodworker
+diy man glen - The hand-drawn mark was pretty close, but still just a tad off ;)
Happy the video was useful. That sounds like an ideal application for this jig!
yes I was looking on-line for a method of doing this and come across your video so thanks also I shared a link to your UA-cam channel on my woodworking Facebook page for you may help get you out there..just Facebook search..... D.I,Y Man Glen woodworking and have a look all so it's going to be awesome watching your up and coming videos mate all the best to you
+diy man glen - Thanks, man. Right back at you!
Very cool! That is quite clever. I always like the processes and steps followed to make sure it is precise, like the cut sequence in this one. Good job! :D
+Cactus! workshop - Thanks Carlos! :D
Cool project Kris. I have the veritas centre finder you mentioned, and it does leave a big mark if I strike it too hard. Good stuff :)
Cheers from NS
Thanks, Mark.
Cheers :)
Well done, and thanks.
Nice jig and clever too, Kriss! :)
Awesome idea and nice video
Awesome video Great idea!
Awesome!
Man, you've got a great channel. Really interesting ideas here. I'm learning a lot. Keep it up!
Simple and effective, very nice :)
+Live Free and DIY - It's nice as long as you don't touch the blade :)
Almost did a few times just playing with it in my hands... Easy to forget that it's there.
Very slick!
+Jeff Jones - Actually, it's kinda sharp ;)
Great jig.
Cool!
and sharp ;)
that's some fancy plywood! 😉
damn, thats some good freehand work
LOL I need this! This is my next build.
+Bob Haws - Happy to hear this!
Cool small project! :D
+Get Hands Dirty - Are you implying I need to build a larger one? :P
Clever way to build the 3 sided box !
+Julien Nadeau - Never thought of it as a 3 sided boxes. That's a good way to describe it :)
Very simple but very handy tool ! :D
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Nice work :)
That high five got me in the end, was not expecting that :')
The hi 5 at the end always makes me duck! Great video man!
+WoodenCreationz - So my plan is working ;)
You should try 3 lines, to see how accurate the tool is... ;-)
+Nick R - You're right, I should have shown that!!
I was going to suggest that as well.
Use plywood in conductor for accuracy measurement?
Like it! Nice wee vid mate.
Thank you!!
Clever!
Maneiro
I failed miserably, about tree weeks ago, trying to find the center of my dowel, literally pulling out some of my hair in anger after press-drilling some of the most off-centered holes humanly possible. If this video had come sooner, I may still have some of that hair. Great video.
+David Jordan - I know that feeling!! I was in the same shoes a couple months ago, but no more will the dowel win the fight :)
How did you get it so precise? Wow. Im usually off by a few meters on any project.
+Willem Kossen - You can do a lot behind a camera ;)
I just gonna make one to find the center of earth.
+Steel Mecano Dude, that's soooo easy... 1. drill hole all the way through 2. drop ball bearing. Where ball bearing comes to rest is the exact center. The hard part will be lining up the drill. ;-)
Dude ?! Are you the hidden son of Frank Howarth and Mathias Wandel ? It's so doable, so convenient for the little peasants we are ! Everyone on UA-cam needs to do different that what exists but YOU do different AND better ! You NEED to keep having awesome ideas. Oscillation sander next mby ?
+Cyril Poirot - Oscillating sander: Next? No. One day? 100%.
Nice!!...
How do you use the router on the MFT table?
Could you show that?
Thank you
+Henrique Rosa - Yup! Here's a video: ua-cam.com/video/v4yKWp_rOB0/v-deo.html
Very nice thank you. High rate of video now ;-)
+norm1124 - Yes, I'm trying to work up to a weekly release :)
+Toolify Great & good luck!
easy as pi!
+Greg's Garage - :P good one!
Jack Houweling made the exact same thing about 4 years ago
+Steven Mason - You're right. I didn't find that until after I made my video. Anyway, I hope you got some value out of my project since the technique and approach we each took to make the tool were slightly different.
Yes, true, slightly different approach. Always enjoy your videos, you do some cool stuff
Festool :O you loaded...XD nice vid man
The blade is not glued and will be replaceable. Right?
Man, you're pretty smart to figure that out? How do you measure doweling? By wrapping a tape measure around it? Or by running a ruler across it? Need to know because I'm ordering some to fit cane heads. Maybe in other words, do I measure the diameter? Or the circumference?
They're sold by diameter (so the ruler across approach). If we're talking < 2" diameter, I'd use calipers - you just need the jaws to be > 1" deep, and you'll get a vary accurate measurement. I'm pretty sure most calipers can do that. If you don't need crazy accuracy, I'm sure a ruler would work fine.
Thanks. No wonder I could find so few dowelings that measured 3 and one half inches in circumference.
Knucks right back at ya.
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LOL nice.
"High 5 for watching!" Always makes me laugh. :)
+MukYJ - That's encouraging. I'd been reconsidering it since a couple folks mentioned it scares them, but I guess now it's here to stay :)
Neat gizmo, but why not just use a turners/machinists centerfinder?
Because it's more expensive?
Nice. At 0:50, if they were not square, how would you have corrected that?
+Ken L - I would clamp a square to both pieces and force them into position. There are clamping squares available that are designed to do just this (or you can make your own).
+Toolify Thanks. Wouldn't that leave a gap in the joint?
+Ken L - I suppose I assumed the material is already cut square, and rather uneven-ness in the clamping pressure caused it to end up off 90°. If the edges of the material are not square, I'd go back and re-adjust the mitre saw (or whatever tool made the cut). And if it still doesn't come out square, maybe use a shooting board setup to true up the edges?
+Toolify cool. I didn't even know what a shooting board was. Looks useful and easy to make. Thanks
+Ken L - Happy to help! Learn something new everyday :)
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Patent?
Or you could save 10,000 hours by using a tape measure like a smart person 😊
Wow. Nobody knows how to do this.
Do you really ned a tutorial to figure out how too make this?
Better than paying Veritas $ 35 !!