need to find dowel centers ya say...

bore dowel sizes into the edge of a 2x4 piece of material w/ a fostner bit, say, 1 - 1¼ inch deep...

insert a blind nail into where the fostner bit left a dimple in the center of the bored hole...
pilot drill for the blind nail if you think you need to...
insert a dowel into the appropriate sized hole and push or tap the dowel's end onto the blind nail's point to mark the center of the dowel..


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Edited September 3, 20169 yr by Stick486

Neat tip, Thanks, Stick!

I'm going to have to write that down so I can remember. I use a lot of dowels with some of the toys I make.

I've been woodworking and DIY-ing for most of my life, and have never seen or heard of a blind nail! Learn something new every day.

John

On 9/2/2016 at 9:16 PM, Stick486 said:

Huh, a nail you can use on either wall...

58 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Huh, a nail you can use on either wall...

I thought blind nail was a joke* until I saw one in the wild yesterday.

 

 

* The Mechanical Engineering library, where I often studied in college, used to have a poster of such fasteners such as double headed nails, double threaded screws and such,.

1 hour ago, kmealy said:

I thought blind nail was a joke* until I saw one in the wild yesterday.

 

 

* The Mechanical Engineering library, where I often studied in college, used to have a poster of such fasteners such as double headed nails, double threaded screws and such,.

Oooh, I hate when that happens. Hopefully it didn't happen in or around Kokomo...lots of debris scattered about from the tornadoes and now probably the on-going clean-up and haul away. Tire repairable I hope?

They have tools for that...

 

 

You can actually use them as a substitute for a dowel center if you don't have enough or are using an odd-size dowel (hard to find dowel centers larger than 1/2").