Woodworking question

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6. I did something like that recently, with a hand drill and w/o a decent chisel.

There was some language involved, but it eventually worked. Once I had an undersized hole drilled down the middle of the dowel, I used the tip of a regular screwdriver to split the wood of the dowel forming the sides of the new hole, and extracted the slivers with needle-nose pliers. YMMV.

I had it kind of easy because one end of the joint was a through hole, which was easier.

The little dowel inserts shown in the video are available in several sizes and styles at Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. You might want to go one size larger if the resulting hole is rough, and just bore it out to the new size.

Don't forget, at some point you have to utter Roy Underhill's favorite line, "and now for the boring part".