re: Spokeshave Rack

Thanks, all!

Splint, I use spokeshaves a lot for flat work and edges. It’s a coin-toss between whether I’ll grab a block plane or a spokeshave to chamfer the corners on a box, for example. On the bench I’m working on for my sweetie’s cousin, the edges of the legs got the spokeshave treatment before I pulled out the #66 to put beads in them.

As for making my own dowels, I started just rounding one end with a knife (the top few have square tips) then said, “Duh, I have a lathe RIGHT THERE!” The hardest thing was that the 16 inch long piece I was working got a little whippy in the middle when I was rounding it with the skew, so I had to wrap my other hand around it to settle it down.