I'm sure many people have struggled with dowels and drilling holes in them to hang canoe seats. I'm also sure there are as many ways to drill a hole in a dowel as there are ways to hang canoe seats!
A machinist would do a most excellent job in this situation!
As I also do turnings on a wood lathe during the winter, I've done it this way, hole first.
This can also be done with an electric drill or a drill press, use a lag bolt that fits snugly in the drilled hole, cut with the head cut off. Put it in the drill chuck and with very coarse sandpaper spin it and sand it until it is diameter you want. (Super sharp chisels on a wood lathe can be a bit scary to the uninitiated.)
There are many other ways mechanics and inventors use vee blocks micrometers, calipers, levels and squares to get a hole perfectly centered in a round dowel. This is of course, a lot easier and less critical
A machinist would do a most excellent job in this situation!
As I also do turnings on a wood lathe during the winter, I've done it this way, hole first.
This can also be done with an electric drill or a drill press, use a lag bolt that fits snugly in the drilled hole, cut with the head cut off. Put it in the drill chuck and with very coarse sandpaper spin it and sand it until it is diameter you want. (Super sharp chisels on a wood lathe can be a bit scary to the uninitiated.)
There are many other ways mechanics and inventors use vee blocks micrometers, calipers, levels and squares to get a hole perfectly centered in a round dowel. This is of course, a lot easier and less critical
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