The next day, I cut the tops of the dowels off, and my dad smoothed the cuts over with a chisel.
This saw blade had too much of a kerf (the teeth pointed slightly outwards perpendicular to the blade), so I put a few layers of masking tape on one side to prevent scratching.
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