Marking Out Dowels
Butt the joint together and mark across the joint side and top, then using a sqaure bring the marks down onto the face to be jointed, this will ensure all drill holes are perfectly alighned. To make sure you don't drill to far down place some tape around the drill bit half a dowel measuremnet up.
Butt Joints
Butt joints are very easy and simple joints to do, the name come from the way the two pieces are jointed, there just butted up together.Common uses for this joint is:
The joint when glued and cramped isn't the strongest so its always best to use ether nails or screws. Nails are normally used only in stud walls or joists in floors, so for the DIY'er screws are probably the most common way to secure a butt joint, its also called a Screwed Butt Joint.Furniture making. Stud walls and joist floors. Framing.
Types Of Butt Joints
Butt Joint: Fix using only glue, The best glue for this would be PVA Resin, then Clamped or Cramped in place untill the glue has cured
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Screwd/Nailed Butt Joint: Stronger fixing, Pilot hole drilled then screwed in from the sides, if counter sunk plugs can be cut to hide the screw heads making the over look neater. A PVA resin glue should be used but there is no need to clamp.
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Doweled Butt Joint: Not as strong as the Screwed Joint but gives an invisable but effective fixing, the idea is that the dowels provide more of a gluing surface and protection when knocked at the joint., To fix this one using a drill bit to a size of the dowel to make holes in each connecting piece, then just glue and cramp.
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Biscuit Butt Joint: Very effective and strong invibale fixing, basicly you route out a slot on each connecting piece and samwhich a wooden biscuit inbetween the joint, The way it works is that the biscuit is made of birch and swells when in contact with moistor from the glue, which fills the slot completely making it a very tight it also providing more glue surface. Its like a moden quick mortise and tenon.
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Pocket Butt Joint Cleaver fixing thats hidden, the main use of this is to hide the fixings yet still beable to dismatle the piece is need be, so no glue with this one unless you would like it perminat. Using a Pocket Jig you drill holes at an angle of the unseen side, this enables you to drive screws in securing the joint. Its very important to the strengh of this fixing ti use Pan Head Screws.
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