> On Dec 9, 2018, at 7:20 AM, John M Johnston (jmjhnstn)  wrote:
> 
>  I think I've got all the necessary tools except for the reamer, could you
talk some about that tool?

Lee Valley makes some that re quite reasonably priced -
http://www.leevalley.com/us/home/Search.aspx?action=n

Elia Bizzarri has some -
http://handtoolwoodworking.com/reamers/

As does Tim Manney -
http://timmanneychairmaker.blogspot.com/p/tapered-reamers.html

Peter Galbert has a discussion of the Manney reamer here -

http://chairnotes.b
logspot.com/search/label/Tools, scroll down to Saturday, January 26, 2013.

Finally, if you noodle around the Lost Arts Press blog you will find more -

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2015/03/11/the-staked-furniture-toolkit/

Bill