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I am working on my paduak Mando and I would like to use that material for the fretboard dots . I have searched several places and came up empty . Does anyone make padauk Dowels or Plug/plug cutters ?

Any Suggestions would be appreciated . Last resort is try and hand cut them .

Would like to get to 1/8"

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James,
How many do you want? Let me know I'll send them your way.

Actually... I'll just be cutting plugs. About 1/2" long each so you can slice off your desired thickness. How many would you like?
chris

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pm sent thanks chris !!

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The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
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Dots... made with a counter bore bit with the 1/8" drill bit removed... go figure!

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Looks like i will be buying some counterbore bits for future use ! Thanks for the idea chris ! and for the effort to make them !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
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Have you got anyone close with a laser engraver/cutter? malls, gift store, bookstore, friend

Childs play if you do.

Simply take them the material thinned to thickness, place masking tape over the material and burn/engrave to desired size ( you may need some backup material if they are really small so they don't fall through the cutting mat). You may need to supply a vector file....... Corel, Turbocad, Autocad, AI or Rhino, or some other vector producing program of what you want.

Kevin

I have a little trick that I like to use for just this kind of problem. Hopefully it'll help you out!

Take a small piece (any shape) of scrap that is just slightly larger than the size of the dot you want. Now take a drill bit the size of the dot you want. With a dot of CA, glue the piece to the end of the drill bit opposite of the cutting end. Put the bit upside down in a drill press and get it spinning! Now you can take a file, or a sanding block of some sort to the edge of the spinning scrap piece. It'll come out to a perfect circle of the perfect size!

Sweet ! You should do a short videa toot of that idea and post it . GREAT idea !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/