Dowel And Biscuit Joints - Page 3 of 5

Here's how to make dowels of any size with a simple router setup. First drill a pilot hole through a 2x4 the same diameter as the dowel you want to…

Choose your own lumber and diameter to produce custom dowels for pinning small joints

Here's a router-table technique for producing clean, precise pocket holes for joining face-frame members. First, construct a wooden cradle fitted with a lever-operated toggle clamp. The cradle angles the workpiece…

This simple jig has but one purpose: to help in cutting a glue relief slot in regular lumberyard dowels. To make the jig, simply drill a couple of dowel-sized holes…

If you have a lathe, it's easy to bore a centered hole in the end of a dowel. You can also do it on the drill press or radial arm…

Although I often need oak or walnut dowels, they're not readily available where I live. Not owning a lathe, I resurrected an ancient but effective dowel-making method that uses a…

A T-jig, used in doweling edge joints, ensures alignment of dowel pins and holes. Boards joined with the jig will mate better on the finish side, and sanding or planing…

In my one-man cabinet shop I used a doweling jig to drill holes for dowel joints in cabinet door frames and the like. Although I found this procedure too slow,…

Before we discovered this simple steel guide for doweling the joints on cabinet fronts, we tried several other approaches, including an expensive two-spindle horizontal drill. Make the guide out of…

When joining face frames, make this doweling jig from 1-1/2-in.-long scraps from the frame's rail or stile and a piece of plywood. Bore the two guide holes in the block…