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    Wood Insert Joinery

    Jun 08, 2022 5 minutes

    Crafting joinery and connecting pieces of wood into larger assemblies is the part of woodworking I enjoy most. Learning different joinery methods can enhance your enjoyment of woodworking and even open up new possibilities.

    I gravitate to a few well-practised techniques as a result of this searching and learning. With this in mind, let’s take a mid-level look at a joinery category I call wood insert joinery — dowels, biscuits and dominos.

    THE SPECTRUM. For a frame of reference, let’s string out our options on a line. On one end are simple joints: nails, screws and glued butt joints. On the other end are more complex wood-to-wood joints like dovetails, mortise and tenon, half laps, etc.

    Wood insert joinery lies closer to this traditional end. Project parts are joined with pre-made wood connectors that

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