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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/190570

Doing it by hand with sandpaper is a nonstarter.
Also I don't have a lathe :-/

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[–] QuickSloth 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AMillionMonkeys 1 points 1 year ago

Brilliant! I didn't know such a thing existed, and my attempts to make something like it haven't been successful.
Low speed. Yes.

[–] Nednarb44 4 points 1 year ago

If they're fairly short, you could make a v block jig and drive it with a drill, and use a chisel on the side you want to round over. There's a vid/gif I saw recently of a gentleman doing it to make the dowels themselves after knocking the corners down with a hand plane

[–] drofenvy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you use a jig to hold the piece vertically and clamp to keep from rotating, with the to be rounded part pointing down and a router table with roundover bit?

[–] AMillionMonkeys 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking horizontally. I'd hesitate to do it vertically since gravity would be pulling the stock into the bit. If anything went wrong it's not exactly fail-safe.

[–] Golfnbrew 2 points 1 year ago

I think the roundover bit is your best bet. But you don't have to go vertical. Horizontal, perpendicular to the fence of a router table. You will need to build a jig somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A 1/2" dowel might fit in the shank of a standard hand drill... If so, I'd use the dowel in the hand drill and would round off the other end against a belt or oscillating sander, basically.