Using Wooden Dowels?

[C08]

Apology not boaty but certainly woody and I feel this is where the expertise is on this.
I am inserting new sections in three softwood 5 bar gates having cut out rotten wood. I am using a mixture of lap joints and scarf joints and Titebond for the glue and pinning the joints with 8mm beech wood dowels when the joint has set. I try and not get too much glue down the holes so as to not get a "hydraulic lock" at the bottom of the hole but is there any particular correct way of applying the glue before bunging in the dowel?

 

[Hacker]

I’ve always just put some around the dowel with a bit on its bottom. If you have ribbed dowels it just tracks up the sides as you hammer them in

 

[CliveF]

just put a 1mm deep hacksaw cut down the side. No hydraulic lock as the excess is forced out. the groove is full of glue so no water gets in.

Clive

 

[DownWest]

Ribbed dowels, as above.