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Default Sagging Door (was "How difficult to "build" a Door") III

dpb wrote:

That they tend to come out of the rails and not the stiles is owing to
that the in the stile they're along/parallel to the grain; in the rail
it's almost entirely end grain. That is much less strong.



Excuse me? Are you saying that a dowel glued into the rail is less strong?
If so, I beg to differ.


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