Dowel & Tenon Making

Veritas Power Tenon Cutters as recommended to us by Jon Warnes. Jon has taught rustic woodcraft for many years so his recommendation is most valuable. This what the manufacturers say... These tools are indispensable for making rustic furniture, producing clean round tenons with smoothly radiused shoulders on the ends of sticks, branches, or more formal stock if you wish. With typical Veritas...

Obtaining dowels to perfectly match a project or specific species of timber, is to say the least, almost impossible. Not so if you own a Veritas Dowel cutter and have a few timber off-cuts to hand. These cutters can be used two ways. Either use them like a hand-held pencil sharpener, to put accurate tenons on the tips of turnings or on rustic furniture components. Alternatively using a cordless drill,...

If you want to make exact-sized dowels from any wood you choose, a Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate is the best tool. It's also handy to get a precise tenon on chair spindles. The Lie Nielsen plates are 1/4" x 5-5/8" x 1½" surface ground A2 tool steel. The holes are machined with 6-degree clearance taper on the underside, the holes are straight for the first .025"; so this tool can be sharpened many times...

Rob Cosman's Wood Hinge Drill Kit as seen on "The Woodhinge Box" Rob made thousands of boxes using this style of hinge and I have designed four jigs to precisely drill the hole in the center of dowel segments (the most difficult task). Kit allows you to drill 1/16 inch and 1/8 inch size holes in 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, 3/8 inch, and 3/4 inch diameter dowels. Kit includes 1/16 inch...

The Veritas small tapered reamer 5mm to 19mm (3/16" to 3/4") is useful to rustic furniture makers for back-tapering holes for through-tenon wedging. The bit is 85mm overall length with an 8mm hex shank. Designed for use in an electric drill, these tools may also be used in a traditional brace.

The Veritas Tapered Reamer Pro is designed for use in a hand brace, our pro reamer offers excellent control and good cutting capability for general woodworking. It is particularly useful for tapering through holes where you want to be able to wedge tenons, such as in chair construction. This reamer has a cast steel alloy body, a separate spring-steel blade, and a pair of blade-adjusting set screws. When...

Sometimes when plugging holes, no matter how carefully drilled, the holes finish up slightly oversize for the plug, especially in soft woods. These Veritas cabinet maker's snug plug cutters overcome this by cutting a slightly tapered plug. The first 3mm of the plug is the diameter stated whilst the remaining length is then flared out at an angle of 3°. Just tap the plug into place until you...

This replacement blade is for Veritas Power Tenon Cutters and it fits all sizes.