What are wooden dowels used for?
What are wooden dowels used for? |
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Dowels are used for making strong, accurate joints in wood. | |||
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They are thicker and sturdier than nails or screws and therefore less prone to breakage. | |||
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They provide a stronger joint than just using glue as they insert into both the pieces of wood being joined together. This means they cannot easily snap apart. | |||
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They are regularly used in the construction of a huge number of wooden household items and pieces of furniture, including picture and door frames… | |||
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…attaching table and chair legs… | |||
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…building cabinets… | |||
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…and constructing wooden shelves and racks. | |||
Why are dowels so suitable for joinery? |
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Using dowels eliminates the need to use nails or screws. | |||
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Joints made with dowels cannot slip and, when constructed accurately, are guaranteed to be neat.
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Other uses of dowels |
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Dowels are used in woodworking for a variety of purposes other than jointing. | |||
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They can be used to repair stripped screw holes. These are holes that have lost their thread and will no longer hold a screw. | |||
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In toy-making, dowels are perfect for axles in toy vehicles. | |||
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Amateur fletchers use dowel rods to make arrows. | |||
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Gymnastics grips are often reinforced with dowels, which rest between the gymnast’s fingers and the gymnastic equipment to prevent blistering. | |||
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Dowels can be seeded with spores, then hammered into treated logs to create home fungus farms. | |||
