wood dowel stuck in house wall timber with shavings surrounding it - Dmitrii Balabanov/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For such a simple component, crafting a ...

Trying to eyeball the exact center of anything is a bad idea, especially when you’re working with dowels. This DIY dowel center finder is cheap and easy to make, and works like a charm. You can buy ...

Got a cool letter or invitation to send that could use some pizazz? Design blog Ragehaus has a great how-to for creating your own wooden wax seal, to give your snail mail letters an even more ...

Though they're nothing more than long, cylindrical pegs, wooden dowels can be used to make furniture and home accents of surprising complexity and disarming beauty. Sold at any hardware store—in ...

If you have access to a drill press, saw, and sander, and are looking for a great present for smaller children this holiday season, [Jonny] may have you covered. He’s come up with a pretty good how to ...

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Wooden dowels too often seem like one of those things that stacks up around the house or workshop -- you buy some for a project, you use what you need, and then you have leftovers that have no ...