User Manual

Anyone who wants to make storage shelves for

the cellar quickly and easily, usually reaches for

the portable electric drill and the appropriate

chipboard screws. But what is fine for the cellar,

is really unthinkable in the living area. Who wants

to find themselves looking at screw-heads in the

sides of the shelves? Certainly you can fill in these

holes with putty or mortar – but that doesn‘t look

so great either! For such cases you need wood

joints that are as far as possible invisible, or de -

corative, and that is what we would like to tell

you about on the following pages.

Joining wood together

Decorative and invisible wood joints

Round dowel joint

The best-known “invisible” wood joint is a dowel

joint made with round dowels. These are particu-

larly popular because all that is needed to make

them, is a power drill and the right wood drill bit.

Both of these can be found in almost every house-

hold,

and so it is not surprising that almost every

home craftsman has acquired some degree of

good experience with round dowels.

Biscuit joints

Less well known are wood joints made with bis-

cuits. However, these have a very significant ad-

vantage over round dowel joints. The oval shape

of the biscuit plates makes it possible for the

joint still to be shifted in one dimension, in con-

trast to the round dowel. A guidance, on how

quickly and easily these biscuits can be cut, is

starting on page 14.

Wood jointsAn overview

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