On 8 Feb, 20:17, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Why would that be a problem? *Thousands of door frames, skirtings etc have
been fixed that way in the past - it was standard practice.

I'm not saying screwing into end grain won't work, but I've found from
practical experience the holding power with ordinary screws in end-
grain is usually sh*t compared to cross-grain. Admitedly some of these
fancy multi-start poxy-drive screws may be OK.

Go on call me a luddite.