Keeping the top edges of the front and sides surround pieces of a cabinet base can be tricky, especially when you’re working alone. To solve the problem and get perfectly flush top edges, we cut biscuit slots in the mating pieces shown above. The biscuits prevent any slippage and the clamps ensure tight joints.
Their new Fixo half-width biscuit simplifies joinery even further by eliminating clamps. To use a Fixo, cut one #20-sized biscuit slot across the two pieces you want to join. Curved ridges molded into the glass-reinforced plastic biscuit pull the joint together.
It’s time to drop your standard woodworking clamps and check out these clamping biscuits. Master woodworker George Vondriska teaches you how they work and how they can be an easy solution in your woodworking shop for some of those more difficult-to-clamp joints.
biscuit joiner and clamps Related Question:
Do biscuits help with alignment?
Biscuits joints serve best as a quick and easy way to keep glue-up parts in alignment, and that they add appreciable pull-apart to strength joints that would be otherwise too weak to stand on their own – like butt joints and miter joints.