• Using more than one dowel per joint, will strengthen the joinery and allignment.
• Using a jig will make joinery with dowels a lot easier and speeds up the process.
• Furniture shelf supports.
• Supports for hanging items such as clothing, key rings, tools etc.
• Joinery.
• Dowel-based joinery typically employs fluted dowel pins. A fluted dowel pin has a series of parallel groove cut along its length.
• The fluting provides channels through which excess glue (which is used to secure the dowel pin in its hole) can escape as the dowel is inserted, thereby releiving the hydraulic pressure that might otherwise split the timber when clamped together.