Hi Mo,
There is a hand held rotary shaving device used by chair makers to create the spindles that are fitted to the back of Windsor chairs. This tool works like a giant pencil sharpener and is very easy to use especially on green wood. The rotary plane employs a spoke shave blade set at an angle which can reduce quite rough oversized drawn stock down to a uniform diameter (1" and 3/4" are standard rotary plane sizes). You would need to clamp the peg in a vice at one end and then resize same using the tool and then use a draw knife over the last clamped bit to create a taper to start the peg in the hole.
Is it possible that the pegs supplied to you were turned green and left slightly oversize to enable final turning to the correct size ? Grasp the peg in your hand and rotate same - if turned green it will have become oval as it dried.
Regards
Ken Hume
Last edited by Ken Hume; 09/03/11 08:22 AM.
