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DOWEL JOINT xx DOWEL & DOWEL MAKING xx EDGE JOINT & EDGE JOINTING xx WOOD JOINERY Buyer's guide to doweling jigs. What they do, how they work, and what they cost. 10 models compared. Includes doweling tips. Slotted dowels are used when dry fitting a project. Simple dowel dryer to shrink dowels slightly before using them. Using epoxy injection to fabricate a plastic dowel-joint pin in place without having to open up the joint. Use ordinary pliers to flute small dowels. Improved tightening handle for the "Dowel-It" dowelling jig. How to safely cut a groove in a dowel or saw a flat on one side. Designing solid-wood case joints or corner joints. Detailed look at (1) transom corner joint, (2) through corner joint and (3) overlapped corner joint. Simple jig for cutting grooves in dowels. Quick way to trim dowels or wooden keys flush with a surface using a router. Tip on grooving dowel pins using a drill press chuck. Four ways to accurately locate holes for dowels when working on irregularly-shaped objects. Simple dowelling jig made from wood is customized for the dowel size and wood thickness being used. The dowel joint. How to make a simpler alternative to the mortise and tenon. Simple jig to cut a glue-relief channel in the side of a dowel pin. Jig for converting your lathe into a horizontal boring machine for making accurate dowel joint holes. Tip on resizing (shrinking) oversize dowels in an oven or microwave. The Selbermachen dowel system for building furniture. Square parts are connected by dowels, then secured by locking dowel pins. No glue, screws or nails. You can be a doweling whiz. Build this jig for a radial arm saw. It lets you make perfect dowel joints with minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Basic woodworking joints. Butt, rabbet, dado, dowel, and drawbolt joints. How to join wood with dowels. Tip tells how to test the fit of dowel joints. Tip shows how to insert a dowel in a joint to precisely the right depth, leaving a small gap to allow for expansion and contraction. Simple accurate dowel jig, fashioned from scrap wood, is custom fitted to the project being worked on. Score your own dowel pins using a coarse rasp. Tip on shrinking tight dowel pins in a microwave oven. Tip describes how to get the right amount of glue into a dowel hole. Tip shows how to make fluted dowel pins from dowel rod. How to drill accurate dowel holes in long board ends using a drill press. Tip: Use a spring-loaded dowel when trying to dowel a rail in place between two fixed posts. Doweling. The whole secret is absolute accuracy. How to make doweling jigs from wood that allow you to make perfect dowel holes in the wood pieces you want to join. The dowel joint. Why round tenons fall out of round holes. Includes tips on making better dowel joints. Make a T-jig, used in doweling edge joints to assure alignment of dowel pins and holes. Tip: Modify a squeeze bottle to apply glue to dowels without it dripping off and getting on your hands. Tip: How to apply just the right amount of glue to a socket when assembling doweled joints. Doweling jigs. A test of nine different commercially made doweling jigs. Triangular sensibility. Intuitive geometry makes strong designs. How common materials (dowels, nuts, bolts, rattan) can be combined to make strong but lightweight furniture. Includes several jigs and ideas for working with dowels. Shop-built doweling machine (horizontal boring machine). Est. cost: $260. Use a hidden floating-dowel joint to attach a solid-wood tabletop to its apron. This joint allows the top to expand and contract without any chance of cracking. Simple steel guide for doweling the joint between a rail and stile on cabinet fronts. Disposable (wooden) doweling jig for use when joining face frames. Tip: Suggested drilling order when doweling with dowel points. Carcase doweling requires accuracy and patience. Doweling allows delicate shaping that wouldn't be practical with other corner joints. Dowel-center marker will speed up the layout process by marking the mating holes simultaneously. Tip on grooving your own dowels using a chisel and a block of wood. Dowel joinery. How to install dowel pins with grooves pressed into their surface in order to improve the strength and efficiency of typical dowel joints. Includes tips on assembling a cabinet using dowel joints. Simple jig and steel screws are used to cut glue-relief grooves in the sides of dowel pins. Tip on compressing and burnishing short wooden dowels to make them perfectly sized. Tip on removing a broken dowel without damaging the original hole. Tip on shrinking dowel pins using a hot oven. Simple jig for use when cutting glue-relief slots in dowel pins using a band saw. Doweling techniques and a doweling jig. Edge-joining narrow boards using dowels. Edge-joining with dowels. Basic carpentry. Part 16. Glued joints that stay together. Basic wood joints are described and illustrated. Shop test of the System Zenses, a series of jigs and rotary cutters powered by an electric drill. Does dowelling, rabbets, dovetails and other cabinet joints. The ABCs of doweling. A summary of basic design rules and construction techniques for dowel joints. Tips on locating dowel holes when edge-joining boards. Tip: How to mark dowel holes when edge joining boards. How to make professional-fitting dowel joints. Five jigs that make doweling easier are shown. Twenty eight ways to make strong wood joints. Includes the following styles of joints: lap, tenon, dowel, butt, dovetail, glue-block, splined, rabbet, and cogged. Several versions of each may be illustrated. Tip: How to join a dowel to a board using a wood screw with the head cut off so that the screw does not go through the board, and is therefore, "invisible". Drill press jig will enable you to accurately drill dowel holes perpendicular to the face of a 45-degree miter. How to master fine wood joinery. Part 2. Dowel joints and lap joints. Workshop minicourse. Joining with dowels. Workshop minicourse. More about dowels. Using a doweling jig. Workshop minicourse. More about dowel joinery. Dowel joints. How to make a wide variety of strong, dowel-reinforced wood joints. Build this stand-alone doweling jig. A wooden table with miter gauge slots plus a 1/4 to 1/2 hp motor with drill chuck attached to arbor makes up this boring machine. Motor is stationary and work is fed into the bit using the miter gauge. Motor adjusts up or down on a screw for centering of the hole. A look at the fine art of dowel joinery. How to build a doweling jig. How to dowel almost anything. Looks at using both homemade and commercial jigs to locate dowel holes. Dowel joinery. Making a frame joint, butt joint, and edge joint using dowel reinforcement. How to edge-join boards. How to prepare the boards, cut the spline joint, drill a dowel joint, clamp the stock, and prepare the stock for finishing. Tip: Use electrical tape to "enlarge" dowel centers to fit odd-sized holes. Tip: Using BBs to precisely locate dowel holes in matching pieces that have unusual shapes. A simple jig for grooving dowels with your band saw. Tip: Shrink dowel pins before inserting by heating in microwave oven. Tip recommends modifying dowels so they won't seize in the holes during dry-assembly. How to make accurate and long-lasting dowel joints. Tip on using pieces of all-thread rod and epoxy as a substitute for dowels and glue. How to drill several pairs of parallel dowel holes into a curved backrest top. Dealing with dowel joints. How to make old ones as good as new. Surefire tactics for taking a dowel joint apart, a technique often needed when repairing wobbly chairs. Tip on using bamboo skewers to pin loose mortise-and-tenon joints on antique furniture. Dependable dowel joints. With simple dowels and glue, you can bond wood on the cheap. The case for simple edge-gluing. A comparison of the plain edge-join and edge-joins reinforced with dowels, splines, or tongues. Tip: Make a simple wooden jig to assist you in drilling holes in the end of a narrow piece of wood (as required when butt joining using dowel pins.) A comparison of the dowel joint with other types of joints (spline, mortise-and-tenon, etc.) and the advantages of each. Tip on keeping dowel centers from falling out of the holes. Table saw jig for grooving or scoring long dowels to provide room for the glue. Dowel jigs. An old alternative is still cheap and effective. A user test of 9 different doweling jigs and tips on selecting one that fits your needs. Band saw jig for cutting glue grooves in smooth dowels. The Record Dowelling Jig #148. What it is and how to use it. Includes plans for a storage rack for all of the parts of the jig. Also includes plans for bookshelves made from veneered chipboard and jointed entirely by doweled joints made by using the Record dowelling jig. Tips and accessories for using the Dowelmaster doweling jig to drill accurate holes in particle board (Contiplas) when building the carcase for a wardrobe. Doweling. Helpful hints for making doweled joints. Make a simple drilling jig for accurate doweling. Dowelling jig which is made up for the size and thickness of the job in hand. It is easy and accurate to use, can be applied to any size of work, and can be altered for drilling angled holes. Economical and accurate drilling engine for dowels. Build this horizontal drill press (dowel jointer) from wood and a small electric motor. Dowelling jig is designed to be used with any plunge router to which drilling bushes (bushings) can be added. Modified butt joint is reinforced with a dowel and the dowel is concealed with a patch made from the wood being joined. Reversible routing template for plunge-routing dowel holes. Tip on drilling dowel holes using a plunge router. Tip on using threaded steel rod to make very strong dowel joints. T-shaped dowelling jig for corner joints, T joints or edge joints. A portable drill (equipped with a depth stop) can drill dowel holes in the edge of a board with this simple jig. Get more from your lathe with simple jigs. Part 2. A lathe powered dowelling machine (jig for drilling dowel holes). Simple dowelling jig made from wood is customized for the project at hand. Miter joints. How to measure, cut, fit, and assemble both splined and doweled miter joints. The beginning woodworker. Doweling details. Tip: How to make your own set of dowel center markers. The beginning woodworker. Doweling details. Tips on removing broken dowels from their holes when repairing furniture. Make your own dowel center marker from a nail, washer, and piece of dowel. Jig for cutting a glue-relief slot into dowel stock using a pointed screw. Jig for cutting glue-relief flutes (grooves) in dowel pins using a band saw. Tip on pulling out dowels broken below the surface when repairing furniture. Jig for accurately drilling the multiple dowel holes needed to attach the three feet (legs) to a pedestal-style table. Jig for fitting dowels to a table framework. Used to position and drill the matching dowel holes in aprons and legs. Tricks of doweling. How to correctly construct a dowel joint. Shop-built doweling jig is made from sheet steel. Tip on press-fitting dowels using a bar clamp to avoid damaging the work piece. Tip on using bamboo skewers as small dowels to reinforce woodwork. Tip on cutting spiral grooves into dowel stock using a scroll saw and this simple jig. Tip on using a bench grinder to sand off the ends of reinforcing dowels in picture frames. | |||||||||
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