Steel Dowel Plate Maker, Wood Dowel Rod Maker Imperial 19 Holes in 1/32" Increments from 1/8" to 5/8", Available for All Softwoods and Hardwoods

this dowel plate is sharp and does a good job creating accurately-sized dowels. One issue is the hole marked 16/93" instead of 11/64". I would love to have a correctly-engraved plate once the supplier makes the needed correction. Note the hole is just mismarked, not inaccurately sized.

Works well. My only complaint is I wish it had a larger lip so that it could be mounted easier and more securely.

Used for sizeng wooded dowels, easy to use. rought finnish

I purchased this on sale during Prime Day because it was more than half off the DFM Dowel Plate. It’s a direct knockoff of that product; even using screenshots from the Wood by Wright’s tutorial video of the DFM Dowel Plate. I tested the hardness and it came in between 50-55 Rockwell, which is well below the advertised range. It worked well enough for the test dowel I made, but I’m concerned about longevity of this tool. I will likely return it and purchase the genuine item from DFM.

It seems to be made from good material and it was delivered quickly

The media could not be loaded.  The dowels I used to get from the home store were perfectly sized, but not so anymore lately. The 1/4" dowels have been oversized, and it's very hard to get where you need to be with sanding alone. I ran one of the oversized dowels through this and it came out... terrible. I hadn't supported the dowel on the way down so it wobbled from side to side as it went through and came out all crooked.For my next attempt, I just lightly tapped a little at a time and used my free hand to keep it as straight/perpendicular as possible (see video). That worked great. It probably isn't PERFECT, but it is well within spec for a toy car axle. It would probably be hard to get a very straight dowel at long lengths - then the drill style jig would probably be better. But this is great for shorter dowels and couldn't be easier to use.

On the one hand, this is a really good value proposition, but on the other it is really hard to get street usable lengths of dowel rod. Every piece of wood that I’ve run through this has come out bent or crooked because it’s so hard to support the material and keep it a vertical

It doesn't matter how straight the grain is on the piece I use, grain direction, type of wood, hammer, or how perfectly straight the stock runs through, I still get gnarly tear out. It just cuts poorly. The only way I've gotten half decent results is to chuck the wood in a drill and spin it through while applying downward pressure. Still requires quite a bit of hand sanding clean up, which defeats the purpose of accurately sized dowels.