Panels, carcasses, drawers, etc. must be assembled to form the finished piece of furniture.
In the past, these joints were made using dowels or screws. Nowadays, gluing is widely used, with dowels, which reduces labor costs.
Dowel assembly
The dowels are cylindrical wooden plugs; they are grooved so that the glue used to fix them can run through the channels thus created and block the dowels, which are thus glued to the assembly holes.
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