Woodworking How To Make Biscuit Joints
Making a biscuit joint requires using a biscuit joiner tool.
Woodworking how to make biscuit joints. Woodworking Tips Techniques. Biscuit joints are a method for gluing boards together along their edges to create a wider slab or plank without screwing or splicing them. Biscuits provide butt joints added strength and durability.
These will be the centerlines for the biscuit slots. This technique is used for making tabletops furniture and cabinets and although it requires special tools it is within the reach of most hobby woodworkers in a home woodshop. Glue it all up and it will be much stronger than biscuits the.
Woodworking Tips Techniques. Then lay the shelf on its side lined up with its location mark. The Family Handyman editor Ken Collier explains the basics of using a biscuit joinera great tool for building cabinets bookshelves and other woodworking.
Simply clamp your piece of wood in place align the tool on the end that you want to join and use the tool towards the piece of wood. Using a biscuit joiner and biscuits is a great way to join multiple pieces of lumber so the boards are aligned during glue upthis is a big time saver. Clamp the side and shelf together and to your bench with the edges flush to each other.
WOOD magazines Craig Ruegsegger shows you no. A tool known as a biscuit joiner cuts a slot into each of the two pieces of wood to be joined adds glue to the slots inserts the biscuit into one and then the other to join the pieces together. Its easy to fall in love with biscuit jointstheyre so fast and easy.
Run the board over a table saw or use a router bit to make 18 or 14 grooves centered along the place you want to join then cut a strip the same thickness and slightly less than the width of the two cuts added together. Even if you already own a biscuit joiner or plate joinersame animal Im sure youll pick up. Biscuiting basics A biscuit joiner also known as a plate joiner cuts half-oval slots in mating workpieces.