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How many of you still use hardwood dowels when stacking boards? I still do. I've seen so many using biscuits or domino's, but they just don't have the strength that I find with dowels.
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Hi Rick, I started using dowels over 35 years ago with furniture building. I glued many a redwood signs together with dowels. When biscuits arrived on the scene, I switched to them quickly. A double row of biscuits is quick, and I never noticed a difference in the quality of the joints from dowels.
As with dowels or biscuits, they are more for alignment than anything. The surface area of the rest of the glue joint, is a lot stronger than the little amount of glue on the dowels or biscuits.
I find that biscuits are easier machine and align to make the surface of the joints on the face of the sign flush.
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When I've reclaimed old signs and cut them up and started splitting them into kindling is when I see the strength difference with 2" hardwood dowels.
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