Dowel

usedtobe

Does anyone know where I could avail myself of dowels that are cut across the grain, rather than with it.? I'm sure I've seen them somewhere...

Memphis

Aldi occasionally do dowel-cutting bits fairly cheap. eBay would also be somewhere to look. You would have to get the wood to cut them from, but it wood be a very flexible solution, and you'd never again worry about incomplete ikea furniture!

octatonic

Definitely make your own.

The cutters are relatively cheap.

I went to Axminster a few weeks ago and they had some cross-grain dowels too.

WezV

Plug

Andyjr1515

WezV said:

Plug

Was that Plug It , @WezV?

Misterg

Likely he means plugs

http://www.widgetco.com/site/images/banners/wood_plugs.jpg

WezV

just giving a silly one word pedantic answer to a sensible one word thread title

its a plug, not a dowel, when its cut across the grain and the appropriate tool for cutting such a piece of wood is a plug cutter.  axminster do sell some pre-cut plugs but i think mainly of the tapered variety.  i would use straight plugs for anything structural and tapered for aesthetic reasons

quite like the ear plugs in a lot of ways

ecc83

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dowel+cutter&tag=googhydr-21&index=diy&hvadid=25090561926&hvpos=1s5&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10768201861557107904&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_6e161mq25_b

Dave.

usedtobe

I was picturing something longer than the plugs in the pic, but point taken plugs and dowels. I think I will be investing in some plug cutters, then.  Ta muchly, chaps!

Misterg

Beware that you can get both parallel and tapered plug cutters in a given diameter - I guess you want a parallel one.

Aldi/Lidl have them from time to time (adequate quality).