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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. |
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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.
For more information, seeĀ How to accurately align dowel joints. |
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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. |
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