6 Ways To Create Dowel Joints (making jigs & basic wood joinery)

Dowels / wooden rods are great for connecting wood together. But what are the different ways to do it? What kind of jigs would be useful to have on hand and can you make them yourselves?
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[@BadSpock]

I like how you reinvented dowel centers!
I also saw John Heinz has a trick using masking tape and a punch awl to transfer hole positions to the other piece.

[@fredpierce6097]

Dowels are pretty strong but can definitely bite you if there is any inaccuracy in the layout. Also, those dowels should be fluted or grooved so that the hydraulic pressure of glue in a hole doesn’t block complete insertion of the dowel causing an inability to close the joint.

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Nice video. You showed the factory made jigs, and a shop made version. Thank you Ms. Linn

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[@elgar104]

Been down these highways.... never really happy with the result. If making your own Jig... it is essential (I think) to be drilling into the exact centre of the wood. That way the same jig can safely be used for both set of holes.
Exactly symmetrical is also important..... that way you don't have to worry about which side is which. Also exactly perpendicular. Everything fits perfectly regardless.
Least that is what I aim for....
The trick with the sticky tape... as others have said.... is the bomb though.

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Home brew dowel point centers. I love it.

[@johnford7847]

Very timely - I need to put together a small table and I was thinking dowels would be much faster than mortise and tenon. Thanks, Linn.

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Great Job Thankyou

[@philbrandon0532]

Or just buy a Triton dowelling machine 😂
For finer/smaller dowels I use the plugs or a plastic centre finder jig, depending on the material and thickness.
For 8/10/12mm dowels (Triton doweler) in 12mm or thicker material, that is the machine and just like a biscuit joiner/or domino comes into its own.
Nice explanation on various methods though, and those dowel plugs do save time/effort when you need things to flow and timed

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[@2logj]

Super but you forgot the versatile tape which is the easiest of all.

[@wf2v]

Dowelmax!

[@TheDajoca]

The price is obscene though.

[@tooljunkie555]

I have the rockler dowel jig and pretty much every other dowel jog out there take my time and the boards NEVER line up right idk why! But it drives me crazy!

[@BadSpock]

And you mentioned metal guide bushings... really necessary for a reusable jig unless you have a very hard wood.
And there's no chance of me drilling holes straight without a machine or a drill guide at minimum.

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