I pick up dowel centers for exactly that reason.  Never know when you will
need them.  Oh, and brace reamers, gasket gutters, etc etc etc.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Ed Minch  wrote:

>  she pulled out one of the necks from the a kit and we found it had 2
> holes drilled in it for dowels.  The directions say to drill a hole in the
> body 1/2” down from the top and one 1-1/4” down from the top.  We measured
> the location of the holes and they were not those dimensions.  We looked at
> a second one, and they were a little different than the first.  Oh oh.
>
> So a light bulb went off in my head - that’s what a dowel center is
> for!!!!!  I had re-organized my shop about 2 years ago and remembered tight
> where they were.
>


-- 
Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, who hasn't used any tools for building
for over a week, only demolition.