Comments on: Carcase doweling, part 4 https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2021/08/31/carcase-doweling-part-4/ inside the woodshop Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2021/08/31/carcase-doweling-part-4/#comment-465587 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:04:12 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=7111#comment-465587 Thanks, Bernd.

I checked out Wood Mind. Their dowel pins appear to have straight compressed grooves so they may not be an advantage over those available in the U.S./Canada unless they are simply better overall quality in terms of tolerances, consistency, etc.

However, I see their “quellstäbe buche” – beech one-meter source rods have spiral grooves, though I could not verify that these grooves are compressed rather than cut. They seem to be very high quality based on the claims in the description.
https://www.wood-mind.com/Rundstaebe-aus-Holz/Quellstaebe-Buche/holzart-buche/Quellstaebe-Buche-10-mm.html

I wonder if Lee Valley or similar company would be interested in importing them. Any thoughts?

Rob

]]> By: Bernd Kraft https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2021/08/31/carcase-doweling-part-4/#comment-465545 Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:25:15 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=7111#comment-465545 Hi Rob,
I see the advantage in compressed flutes (“geriffelt”) and looked out for those dowels. I could order them in Germany (www.wood-mind.com), but unfortunately do they not deliver to the US. I wonder how I could be of help?
Bernd

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2021/08/31/carcase-doweling-part-4/#comment-465131 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 04:27:42 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=7111#comment-465131 Thanks, Alfred. I wonder where that store sources those dowels. The spiral groove in Rockler’s dowels looks like it is cut, not formed by compression. As such, these would not be expansible dowels like Laurier’s or some of the dowels with shallow straight grooves.
From my informal tests, I think the quality of dowel really matters.
Rob

]]> By: Alfred Kraemer https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2021/08/31/carcase-doweling-part-4/#comment-465027 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 03:15:36 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=7111#comment-465027 An independent hardware store in my town still sells good hardwood dowel with a spiral groove on the outside in various length. They seem to be available sometimes in maple and sometimes in birch. I have never seen them in the big box stores. I think Rockler offers spiral grooved dowels.
There was a time when I couldn’t get good dowels and resorted to fox-wedging dowels by widening the sides of the bottom of the hole, etc. – it worked but takes a lot more time.

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