The cool thing about biscuit joinery is that the biscuit is made from compressed wood. Biscuit joinery may not be for the DIYer who’s just building one cabinet, but if you have a lot of cabinets in your future, a biscuit joiner is a great tool to own. The Family Handyman editor, Ken Collier, shows you how to glue and clamp biscuit joints for a strong and nearly invisible joint.
Because biscuit joints are easy to mark out and quick to cut, using one almost seems like cheating. The safest way to cut biscuit slots is with a biscuit joiner. The oversized slot lets the biscuit move slightly, enabling you to tweak parts into perfect alignment.
For tabletops, biscuit joints between boards are much faster than milling tongue-and-groove joints on a router table. Biscuit joints get a bit of criticism for their strength, but there are quite a few applications where biscuit joints are ideal. Biscuit joints can also strengthen an end-to-end butt joint, giving the glue in the joint something more than just the end grain to adhere to.
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How is a biscuit joint made?
A biscuit joiner uses a small circular saw blade to cut a crescent-shaped hole (called the mouth) in the opposite edges of two pieces of wood or wood composite panels. An oval-shaped, highly dried and compressed wooden biscuit (beech or particle wood) is covered with glue, or glue is applied in the slot.
What is a biscuit joint description?
Definition of biscuit joint woodworking. : a joint made by gluing one or more wood biscuits (see biscuit sense 8) in between two boards Where a timber post supports a roof joist, the two are mitred and glued together with a biscuit joint. — Building Design, 26 Oct.