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…
