Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
How to use a dowel joint jig to drill the holes needed to join the pieces of a bookshelf together. In a previous video we saw how I layout the melamine faced particle boards and how I got all the pieces for the bookshelf. I also prepared the melamine boards so that drilling the holes for the wooden dowels was a simple job. These type of drilling jigs are fairly easy to use, and are designed to work with a few tricks that make the holes in the sides of the shelf very easy to line up with the dowel holes on the edge of the shelf boards. Definitively this is a must have woodworking tool if we like to make furniture using melamine faced boards. Thanks to it, building this DIY bookshelf was a piece of cake.
👉 See the layout of the melamine boards and how it measured and marked to know where to drill with the doweling jig:
youtu.be/u_Zy4QJEF7Y
👉 Video 3 - The pro tips for making dowel joints in tricky areas. How to install the kickboard and reinforcement and assemble this melamine bookcase:
youtu.be/tfiEMtGJpOQ
👉 You can find a similar doweling jig and more information about how to make this bookcase in my website:
enredandonogaraxe.club/en/how-to-make-a-bookshelf-with-melamine-board
In this video:
00:00 Video presentation
00:10 I show how the dowels go into the boards joint.
00:35 Trick to adjust the depth stop to drill the face of the board.
01:32 Trick to adjust the depth stop to drill the edge of the shelves.
02:22 How to drill the edge of the shelves with the doweling jig.
05:17 How to drill the sides of the bookshelf to make the dowel joints.
09:20 Trick to make a dowel joint right in the edge of two boards.
11:09 Finish drilling the face of the sides of the bookshelf.
11:46 Presentation of the following video where we will put the kickboard and a reinforcement.
How to use a dowel joint jig to drill the holes needed to join the pieces of a bookshelf together. In a previous video we saw how I layout the melamine faced particle boards and how I got all the pieces for the bookshelf. I also prepared the melamine boards so that drilling the holes for the wooden dowels was a simple job. These type of drilling jigs are fairly easy to use, and are designed to work with a few tricks that make the holes in the sides of the shelf very easy to line up with the dowel holes on the edge of the shelf boards. Definitively this is a must have woodworking tool if we like to make furniture using melamine faced boards. Thanks to it, building this DIY bookshelf was a piece of cake.
👉 See the layout of the melamine boards and how it measured and marked to know where to drill with the doweling jig:
youtu.be/u_Zy4QJEF7Y
👉 Video 3 - The pro tips for making dowel joints in tricky areas. How to install the kickboard and reinforcement and assemble this melamine bookcase:
youtu.be/tfiEMtGJpOQ
👉 You can find a similar doweling jig and more information about how to make this bookcase in my website:
enredandonogaraxe.club/en/how-to-make-a-bookshelf-with-melamine-board
In this video:
00:00 Video presentation
00:10 I show how the dowels go into the boards joint.
00:35 Trick to adjust the depth stop to drill the face of the board.
01:32 Trick to adjust the depth stop to drill the edge of the shelves.
02:22 How to drill the edge of the shelves with the doweling jig.
05:17 How to drill the sides of the bookshelf to make the dowel joints.
09:20 Trick to make a dowel joint right in the edge of two boards.
11:09 Finish drilling the face of the sides of the bookshelf.
11:46 Presentation of the following video where we will put the kickboard and a reinforcement.
