Dowels for your Rotary Jig

[fwharris]

Michael,

Thanks for the update. Their order must of gotten delayed a few days. Last email from him a little over a week ago was that they expected the dowels in the first part of this week and that it would just be birch dowels. Glad to hear they are adding the maple and ash. Guess my order will change also!

[mtylerfl]

Michael,

Thanks for the update. Their order must of gotten delayed a few days. Last email from him a little over a week ago was that they expected the dowels in the first part of this week and that it would just be birch dowels. Glad to hear they are adding the maple and ash. Guess my order will change also!

Hi Floyd,

Yes, Mike Bayer said the tracking shows the shipment is in New York today. He expected them sooner, but he says they could arrive as soon as tomorrow or the next day. Won't be long now!

[bjbethke]

BJB, What model is that? I have a Revo fully manual and a 900/Standard CNC. 2" dowels are not a problem for Ed's jig.

BTW: Jerry, there was a end vise made with the type of mill BJB has. Both the thread and nut. Look around for their site.

Steve it is a REVO, they do not make this model any more. I had it about five years before I purchased my CW unit. It is made with Aluminum Extrusions.

[SteveEJ]

BJB, I thought so. I have one as well. I bought it used about a year ago. Do you have the original cd's that came with it? The guy I bought it from couldn't find his. I have the assembly ones but I was told there were others with techniques.

You will be able to turn dowels for the jig no problem!

[mwhatch]

How about taking your 2x2 and running it through the router table with a 1" round over.

[bjbethke]

BJB, I thought so. I have one as well. I bought it used about a year ago. Do you have the original cd's that came with it? The guy I bought it from couldn't find his. I have the assembly ones but I was told there were others with techniques.

You will be able to turn dowels for the jig no problem!

Steve, I have four CD's and several traning PDF's - The videos covered all the units thay had at that time. The only one that was only for the REVO was the one that shows how to put it together, The PDF's that I saved were for the REVO. I attached a PDF.

[jiml]

Morton,
Thank You, I was going down the thread and was wondering the same thing. Making round dowels isn't that hard. Don't over think it.

[mwhatch]

I was wandering around Lowes today seeing if they had anything i could not get along without when I came accross these 2x48 poplar dowels for $7.28. That comes out to about $2.13 for a 14" dowel. I know a lot of people do not like working with poplar, but when you carve with the grain as the rotary jig does, you get a lot better carve. i have used poplar on my desktop cnc with nice results. Anyway, it can be a cheap way to test a process or pattern. I did a quick carve to see how it would do. I am happy with the results. Now all I need is to figure out how to drill a straight hole in the ends.

I noticed on my last carve that the dowel had gone all the way around but I was only at 98%. So I did some math and calculated 98% if 6.281 and set my board length at 6.156. As you can see in the last picture, my start and end were almost perfect.

Happy carving.

[skeeterman]

Thanks for info Morton, I have been to lowes searching for dowels and the bigest i could find was 1 3/4", You wouldnt happen to have a part # for the 2 inch dowel so as i could maybe have the lowes around here to order some
steve

[mwhatch]

Steve, try #43934. I could not find the label, but that is what it said on the reciept.