Treatise on wooden nail/peg joinery?

[AHill]

I remembered what Steve mentioned and went hunting. It's not a chore to do this searching. Found a couple videos.... Not what I remember. I would think bigger dowels and caps for safety would be better. Even "made" screws for easier building and dismantling. 


Wood pins lacking drilling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41Bw4SX...taroTanaka 
At 2:50

More detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQNyA0SB...taroTanaka
At 2:15
Shown multiple times through the video.

He was using a bird cage awl to drill guide holes in the second video.

[Bruce Haugen]

Bandit, if you run across that, I’d love to see it.

Here’s another one

Go to about 1:45