n one piece of woodto the end of another by means of screws. Woodbeing a fibrous material, it can be readily under-stood that when a screw having sharp threads is put in the endgrain parallel tothese fibers thethreads cut themin such a way that,when an extrastrain is put uponthe part s, thescrew… … Dowel Cross piece WALL CASE 59 of hardwood, glued in it, the grain at right anglesto that of the piece. The size of the dowel, and its location, can bedetermined by the diameter and the length of thescrew. The dowel need not extend all the waythrough the piece, but should be put in from thesurface…
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