I pulled up and old post a while back about rounding the ends of dowels, got what I needed at the time to do what I wanted with 3/8" dowels.
This morning I needed to round over some 1/2" dowels and decided to just make a jig to do them all when ever I needed to.
Nothing really fancy just some 3/4" plywood I had and a little time. I can now round over 1/4" to 1" dowels when needed.
It works very well, I have marked the center point for each dowel size on the jig and all I to do is set the height of the bit and it's ready to go. In the 4th image you can see it is set to do 3/8" dowels. I move the jig about 1/8" from the bit and then with the dowel in the hole I set the height.
The 2 slots you can see on the jig are for the router lift height adjuster and the lock.
As you can see in the last image I don't have a 3/16" round over bit for 3/8" dowels so I had to use a 1/4" bit.
P1243391.jpg P1243395.jpg P1243403.jpg P1243392.jpg P1243402.jpg
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by Keith Outten
