![]() ![]() If you’re going to edge-join boards, you will need to use cauls to keep them flat anyway.Īnd if you’re making miters that aren’t going to be subjected to a lot of stress-say, a picture frame that just hangs silently on the wall-you can get away without any reinforcement to the miters at all. There’s so much play in a biscuit joint that it hardly draws the edge seams together flush. but biscuits are useful to help keep boards aligned when edge joining.” I used to think that myself, but I’m not sure if this does anything either. Just gluing up boards edge to edge is super strong on its own. Again, watching Norm Abram gluing up panels this way pushed me into buying a biscuit joiner.Įventually, woodworkers came to realize that biscuits add basically zero strength to an edge joint. One of the most common uses for biscuits is edge-joining panels-say, for making a table top. So the problem here is not whether it works or not it’s that its effective uses are very limited. ![]() These things are compressed wood, and the glue causes them to expand a little, creating a joint. You make a slot in each piece of wood you want to join, then add some glue and drop in one of these little biscuits. The tool has a little saw blade that plunges into wood, creating a slot. Well, to be fair, biscuit joinery does have some limited uses, but probably not enough to justify its purchase, and I don’t want you wasting money on tools that are just going to gather cobwebs.īut first, if you’re new to woodworking, or if you’re a maker, you may not even know what a biscuit joiner is.
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