Strengthen Your DIY Woodworking Projects & Repairs with Wooden Dowels

Wooden dowels are essential for reinforcing joints in many woodworking projects and fix-it jobs around the home. This includes cabinet making, DIY shoe racks, furniture repair, and anything that requires fastening together wood components. Dowel rods come in a large number of sizes. 1-inch dowels and 2-inch dowels are ideal for load-bearing usage, such as building a coat rack or replacing chair rails. Be sure to use hardwood dowels for these projects for added strength. You can also find square dowels and small wooden pegs with grooves for use with shelving, chairs, and tabletops.

You can find many other uses for woodworking dowels around the home as well. When used with an adhesive, large dowels can strengthen or replace wooden handles on a mop or broomstick. Wood dowels can also be used as paper towel holders, to create additional storage in kitchen cabinets, or to make a DIY towel rack for the bathroom.