Sound Post from scratch

[Martin Sheridan]

Why make one?

Bob Branstetter said on that other forum that he had made some. I buy mine and don't feel a need to cut my own.

A number of years ago I saw the guy on the Woodwright shop make dowels by drilling a hole in a piece of metal. He then took some wood a little over size but not round, shapened it at one end and drove it through the hole with a mallet. The iron neatly trimmed off the excess wood and made a perfect dowel. Seems like that would work with spruce.