wood dowells from home cheapo?
 

yay or nay? for some experimental plug bodys?
there only pine right?
or is there a better kind of dowell?
gonna grind some wood into submission, and i want them to last.
mike

I made a bunch of pluggage last winter with hardwood dowels from the local hardwood store...no splits as of yet. I know these weren't pine...The density varies so watch that.

They might sell pine or fir rods in the millwork section.

-spence

I do not know abuot Home cheapo but the local lumber yard dowels I believe are birch.

I think I read that Home Depots dowels are a hardwood from South America. ( species unknown to me). If you just want to mess around they should be fine. If you are going to fish them just be sure to seal them.

gaaaabage dowels FF, they're made of Ramin which is a south pacific AIR dried timber.....no kilns, has grain like Oak, tough to paint cuz it has air in the pores...u need wood maybe you should come down....I got some nice birch and maple, cedars etc....I'll even cut it up to what you want....and ya can get the other thing at the same time....

Dowels will work fine but not from the DEPOT...........Get yourself some Quality birch or maple ones.................

What other kinds of wood are you selling salty.

thanks guys!
salty check your pm's:D

i was gonna get some dowells and probably shape them bye hand to make some plugs.probly stick 'em on a drill and sand them into submission. needles, poppers, spooks and such.
i'll try to find some better ones somewhear.


mike

got pm and see you Sunday. I got another lathe ya can use to make bodies on Sunday :D

They seem to have poplar, oak and that weird ramin stuff where I live. The grain is pretty inconsistent. I pick thru an entire stock to get a few lengths that I'm happy with. I use mostly the poplar. AC Moore has some stuff that you can pick thru. Look for the good tight grain.

i have 12 or 13 year old plugs i made from dowells, there still alive

Quality Dowels will work FINE, A Dowel was Square before it was Round ,It will save you a Little time if you don't have the tools....................

FF is going to make GRAIN tomorrow on a lathe with some real tools :)

Good dowels are hard to find now-adays the one's to stay away from are the darker one's that look kinda like oak..those are the air dried one's and the moisture content is way up there and they are hard to keep paint on because they have open cells that spit air out.

Downs and Reader has decent hardwood stuff as do some of the other distributors.

Downes and Reader:drool: :drool: They have everything but AYC. Best thing for me is they are less than 1/2 mile from my house:D

u suck:p all that yummy fiberous wood at your finger tips...all I get is driftwood down here:( time for a :sled: trip

:laughs: :laughs: :laughs:

mac im going to mUg You..........

Not a good idea in my neighborhood. :p Wife has keys to the safe. That thought alone scares me sometimes:eek:

frig your safe, plugs............
wait , how old is your fridge:D

Hey Mac if you like D+R then you'd LOVE REX Lumber-they're about 8 times bigger :D

which one. Got one in the basement, one upstairs and a spare on the piazza that I bought last month from my brother when he moved.