Are you a skilled carpenter and joiner ? Are your mortice and tenons strong and perfect ?
Is your dovetail joinery immaculate ? Do you even know what I am blethering on about ?
If any of your answers to the above is NO. Then fear not. I may just have the answer to your DIY dilemmas. The short answer is Pocket Hole Joinery.
Wassat ? I hear you say. Well, put simply, a pocket hole is a means of joining timber together with screws that are partially or completely hidden. Any wood project can be undertaken, chairs, tables, book cases, and cabinetry of all styles. Add a little carpenters glue and all joints are immensely strong.
Now in all things there are drawbacks. With pocket hole joinery the drawback is price, the jigs are not cheap. As are the special screws and the pocket hole plugs (wood plugs that render the pocket holes almost invisible). Also to make the joints square and level, clamping is usually needed, I bought 2 expensive purpose made clamps, only to find a £ 5.00 bar clamp worked just as well.
My pocket hole gear is made by Kreg, an American company, (the only one available at the time) but now there are several makes on the market, and all are of excellent quality.
So if you are not a time served carpenter, but want to build wooden projects that are a lot more solid than the cheap far eastern rubbish that seems to be flooding the household
market these days. Then have a look on the Internet and YouTube for pocket hole joinery.
You may just find that your imagination will be the only limit to what you can build from wood. Cheers me dears..........