In this video, I showcase my custom-made dowel jig for woodworking. I appreciate dowel joinery for its ease and strength, but ...

Third, the dowel greatly enhances the shear strength of the joint. Essentially, the dowel pin itself must break or the wood around the pin must crush severely to get a shear failure.

The wedge dowel, which was first introduced in 2013, looks like a wood screw.A custom-built machine mills threads into a dowel, which then snaps into a milled slot–no extra tools or screws required ...

The headquarters of local furniture makers Dowel Jones is a narrow loft up a steep set of stairs in the back corner of a rubber factory in Thomastown. It’s an inauspicious space and a temporary one, ...