Rhino Wood Industries 100 Pack 3/8" x 2" en Dowel Pins Kiln Dried Fluted and Beveled, Made of Hardwood

dowels range in size from .380" to .385, which is too large to fit an accurate 3/8" hole. I was able to shrink them to a workable size by putting them in a 190F oven for 35 minutes. Other maker's dowel pins are more accurately sized.

Absolute garbage

As described

...in that chair you just fixed with these. I picked up some chairs I saw on craigslist free stuff. They looked like they had a lot of potential, but I couldn't see from the photos how much work it would take to get there. When I got rid of the thick paint and primer that weren't original to the chairs, I saw that there was an attempt to fix one that had broken. It may have been the reason for the thick paint. There was no easy way to disassemble the chair, so I ended up sawing it apart. It had been held together with dowels and with screws. Would dowels have been enough? I mean, probably for normal use. But maybe the foreman asked the owner for a lot of clamps because you never can have enough clamps, and the owner was some corporate raider and was like, "Screw that!" and the foreman used screws instead of clamps. Then again, the leg did need to be repaired, and we'll never know what caused it. Probably space junk. I didn't have a dowel jig at the time. I didn't even know dowel jigs were a thing. I freehanded it based on where the old dowels were. If I had to do it from scratch, I'd get or make a dowel jig. My wife and I made new cushions from them from scratch. SOOOOOOOOO comfortable now. And sturdier because dowels.

These rhino dowel pins 3/8×2in were way to tight..then i read the review that said bake em in the oven 20min and wow! He was right!...they fit great now..then seal em in a jar..keep the moisture out and your good to go.