How To Connect Wood Using Dowel Joinery
A great number of today’s woodworkers tend to eschew doweling for less problematic methods such as biscuit joinery or mechanical fasteners such as pocket joinery, but the simplicity and strength of doweling shouldn’t be discounted. Doweling typically entails using a diameter of dowel that is no more than 1/2 of the width of the board. For instance, when joining 3/4-inch width boards, a 5/16-inch or 3/8-inch dowel would typically be utilized....