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Tricks of the Trade continued from page 24 Hiding Reinforcing Dowels It's common practice to use dowels to reinforce screws driven into end grain, but visible dowel ends are unacceptable in some cases. For example, I wanted to make some boxes with screw-joined sides but I didn't want the dowel ends to show on the outside of the box. To solve the problem, I took advantage of a Forstner bit's ability to make a flat-bottom hole. I was able to drill the dowel holes most of the way through the box walls from the inside of the box for most of the screws. For
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