Or how about a carpenters pencil sharpener? ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Doucet To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] needing pegs for chair caning
Hi Tom, This is grate ideas. Thanks for this. I will let you know what happens. At 12:12 PM 11/13/2008, you wrote: >Kevin, >Knowing absolutely nothing about the requirements of your pegs, >How about buying dowels just too big, as Dale suggests. If the pencil >sharpener doesn't give you the kind of point you want, cut the dowell maybe >an inch too long, and find a way to hold a drill in a vice or clamps with >the chuck horizontal. Then put a peg in the drill, tighten the chuck firm >but not as tight as you would for a drill bit. Now get a flat file and >turn on the drill fairly slow speed. You can hold the file against the >side/end of the peg at any angle you want. Have the peg turning towards you >and hold the file so it cuts on the "push" that way you'll cut wood. > >Work near the center of the file so there is no chance you'll slide off the >end and have the drill grab the file and fling it back at you. > >when you get the size and taper you want, remove peg, clamp it in vice and >cut to length with a small hand saw. > >Like a really cheapie lathe with no tool rest > >If you make your initial pegs too long, they won't be stable in the drill >and will wobble, thus never giving you a nice round cut. > >don't try this with lathe chisels, you've not got a rest and something is >likely to fly around. > >Let us know how you resolve the problem. > >Tom Fowle > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.2/1785 - Release Date: >11/13/2008 9:12 AM Thanks. Kevin Doucet [EMAIL PROTECTED] confuse as says Blind man with unmarked forehead has large belly! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
