Woodworking Joints Torture Test Wood Magazine Nov 2006 Are pocket screws stronger than dowels The massive joints in timber-framed buildings are set in place with treenails wooden dowels across mortise and tenon joints. When it comes time to assemble a dowel joint always clamp up the parts fully without glue first.

Glue the exposed dowels and joint surfaces tap the parts together and clamp the joints for one hour.

Woodworking Using dowels is a tried and true woodworking technique that stretches back thousands of years ago. When the parts are lined up and pressed Of the dowel protruding past the wood surface then trim off the ends with a flush-cutting saw or file. I like 1 2 diameter dowels when working with 1 1 2 -thick wood. To make edge-to-edge joints use the same technique to mark and drill mating edges. Some other uses are in wood flooring parquetry paneling etc.You can cut the tongue and groove in a number of ways. The diameter of the dowel is determined by the thickness of the boards you are working with. Craftsmen have similarly pegged smaller mortise and tenon joints in their furniture projects for just as long.

Traditional timber frames are held together with 1 diameter dowels no matter how big the timbers are. For example if you re working with a board that is 3 4 thick your dowel size should be about 5 16. The length the dowel should be twice as long as the thickness of the wood. Leave about Vfc to 4 in. Choose a dowel that is a 1 3 to 1 2 as thick as the thickness of the wood. For a decorative effect choose dowels made from a contrasting species of wood. METAL DOWEL POINTS are Inserted into dowel holes on one work-piece. To find out if the dowel joint could stand up to a beating I selected two other methods of solid wood joinery and tested them all to failure the biscuit joint is commonly used for its ease of machining and mor tise and tenon although more difficult to make and known traditionally for its great strength is the other joint in the test. It s also generally a very simple technique to master.

1 4 dowels are perfect for projects involving 1 2 thick parts. Shop Skills Using dowels for joinery can be a very strong and accurate method. I think woodworkers tend to avoid dowels for a number of reasons even though they are perfectly capable of making you a better woodworker and your furniture stronger as well. Many of us have used dowels to hold the edges of boards together but when you want to locate dowels in the center of a board s face measuring can get trick I discuss a superior way to make this joint on the How to Use a Router Table page. Place holes no closer than 1 8 from the ends to avoid breaking out the end grain while assembling the joint.

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