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. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121103/f2a9e5f7/attachment.htm>
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