Drawboring

[Jeff Skory]

Great tutorial, as always. Thank you for posting.

One quick question, is there any advantage to lining up the end grain of the dowel so it runs with the grain of the stile? I thought I read somewhere that was a good thing to do, but other than cosmetics I can't see a reason to do it.

Thanks again.

Jeff

Where I have seen this mentioned is when using large dowels (e.g. 1"). The reason for lining the dowel grain perpendicular to the surface grain is so that if the dowel expands it will not split the surface wood. I made use of this technique for a sawbench I built.

[harry strasil]

Draw boring originated with timber framing using green wood to compensate for the shrinkage when drying, I don't drawbore very often in dry wood and if I do I don't drill the hole off very much and just taper the end of the peg like the old timers did.
my 2 cents