doweling a butt joint

[Farrell]

"Drill diagonally from one piece to the other and insert the dowel" would be
far stronger. The other method only serves to increase the glue surface area
a small amount. Another method - if you have the butted surfaces apart - is
to drill straight into both butted surfaces and insert a dowel - that way
the dowel is invisible.

What are you butt jointing? Hmmmmm??

Terry Farrell


> I've seen two methods of doweling a butt joint.  One is to drill
diagonally
> from one piece to the other and insert the dowel, the other is to drill
> straight down the through the seam so that 1/2 the circumference of the
> dowel is located on each piece.  Which is better?
>
>
> David Love