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Laurier Wood Craft - makers of the Expansible Dowel Pin with a Memory!
Makers of the Expansible Dowel Pin
Why should you use them?
Expansible Dowel Pins are manufactured to tolerances other methods cannot match, making them less likely to give problems with automatic or manual insertion. Sizes are strictly maintained from one run to another.
  • Spiral grooves spread more glue across their high points helping to create a stronger chemical bond than any other pin.
  • Expansible Dowel Pins are chamfered  and hand sorted to ensure that the best possible product is shipped to you.
  • Expansible Dowel Pins are manufactured from Hard Maple creating a dowel pin with superior shear strength.
  • Heavy racking stresses make chairs prone to joint failure, The ideal pin to cope with these problems is the Expansible Dowel Pin.
Joints such as the mortise and tenon are expensive to machine and can consume a lot of quality lumber particularly when manufacturing interior or exterior raised panel doors. For example a 2" exterior door that has 6" stiles, 6" top rail, 12" lock rail and a 12" bottom rail can take up to 5 board feet of high grade lumber. Doors made from softwoods won't make strong mortise and tenons joints no matter how you make them.

When you consider the cost of repairing loose joints, unplugging automatic machinery not to mention dissatisfied customers, Expansible Dowel Pins are the least expensive option.


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