Hi: I have a lamello biscuit joiner, it’s the second one I have owned. The first was bought at a woodworking show when the only machines available wwas the lamello, and the Viratex, the Viratex had slop in the slide, and was’nt made as well but the price was half of the lamello. I now have the new Lamello, and I’m very satisfied with them.
Folks -I’ve got an old Porter Cable model 555 biscuit joiner, and recentlywent looking for new blades. You might try with Freud…I think that I remember that Freud made a replacement blade for the 555. It might be academic, but a biscuit joiner is one of the few tools I can think of where the diameter of the blade is important to the final fit.
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What is the difference between a plate joiner and biscuit joiner?
A plate joiner is the same as a biscuit joiner and are used to create an oblong hole in two matching pieces of wood. After the joiners have created the hole, a biscuit is glued, inserted and typically clamped until the wood is dried.
Are biscuit joiners worth it?
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.