Biscuit Joinery Tips and Tricks
Biscuit Joinery Tips and Tricks
Learn the right way to use your biscuit joinery in cabinetmaking projects. Visit http://www.FineWoodworking.com for more woodworking technique videos.
Biscuit Joinery Tips and Tricks
Learn the right way to use your biscuit joinery in cabinetmaking projects. Visit http://www.FineWoodworking.com for more woodworking technique videos.
Boy. You gotsta put some gravy on them thar biscuits ! 🙂 Good tricks
Love this video. I want to buy one that he recommends, but can not find a link. What makes and model should I buy?
Rather than paint glue into the opposing biscuit holes you can just put a blob of glue on top of the biscuit.
I was laying plywood sheet flooring (floating, on top of 1"insulation sheets) recently & used biscuits to keep ’em all level !!
Kinda like tongue & groove.. 😉
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Still very useful information, even 9 yrs since publishing. Thanks.
The combination of screws and biscuits made me think of another combination that might work well: biscuits and pocket screws. Why? Because it drives me crazy when driving a pocket screw pushes a piece out of alignment. Yes, there are many ways to clamp and block the joint to stop this from happening; however, just a couple of biscuits might be enough to keep the pieces aligned perfectly front-to-back.
I have never used biscuit joinery so 2 downsides are possible. First, cutting the biscuit slots may be more of a hassle than clamping a stop block in place. Second, biscuits might not provide a tight enough front-to-back lock to counteract the force of a pocket hole screw being driven in. Just trying to think outside of the box (pun intended).
Thank you for this video im thinking of doing this to make my own bee hive boxes
… I miss Asa. He instructs you on the basics without a lot of fluff. The most important part of this video is to not use the fence if possible. When used properly this is a wonderful tool.
10:57 I got a rush of dopamine when that faceplate fit on there so snug
Very well done. Now I feel confident to use my biscuit jointer
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1:06 not enough glue in that join…. sorry, but no.
Got some real good insight on biscuit joinery! Thanks!
Great vid, good info, thank you!
Good video. When making a corner connection, what ensures that they line up flush? If 16mm then is it the same for the opposite angle?
“Check it out”
NEVER put your hand behind a spinning bladed machine! This given by a reputable magazine?!
Well done mate Gr8 instruction
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Very helpful for inbuilts (where you can backset and thus hide the screws! A couple of comments that screws are not fine woodworking. True, but I would argue that biscuit joints are a weekender solution in themselves and are way too weak on their own for a real use cabinet. A ‘genuine’ fine woodwork approach would use very clever joinery along the lines of the Japanese, European (etc) masters. The problem there is that Dad/Mom would spend three weeks in the workshop for each project, never see their children, perhaps have their spouse walk out on them saying "I couldn’t compete with his/her hobby and he/she never did anything with the children anyway"….
Okay so I’ve got scars, but anyway, ‘glue ‘n’ screw’ is tried and true. The addition of biscuits adds some lateral strength (where screws on their own could be ‘busted out’ sideways by for example boisterous children (who have to too much energy because woodworking Mom/Dad would never take them out to play ball…..)
thanks man big help 😬👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
How to remove glue from Joint location of wood & separate wood ?
Nice vid
The best video on biscuit joinery I have watched!
Great video. I learned a lot in a just a few minutes.
I’ve never used a jointer I just purchase one thank you for this helpful informative video look forward to hear from you by 4 now can God bless
Well done video. But it might be good to just say “you could screw or clamp the frame together to let the glue dry, depending on what you have for clamps and whether you want to plug or cover screws or not
I didnt know how to do any of it, great video very informative. Dont care about screws showing on certain builds.
"Fine" woodworking usually doesn’t include visible screws on the outside of the cabinet. If you want the finished piece to look like a student project, use the screws.
After 8 years since you posted this video do you still use biscuits?
"little biscuit thingies"
I loved how you called them “little biscuit thingys” lol
there’s a trick for that too!
What a great video, what a pleasant guy,
Awesome dude, absolutely first-rate presentation. Cheers!
If you use screws, there is no need to use biscuits …….
Isn’t biscuit joint used to avoid screws?
"All you have to do…" 4:46 famous last words. Love it. Thanks for the tips!!
Awesome never thought of that
Hell of a great video and you’re very well spoken, thank you so much
FINALLY. Someone with a brain.
Finally someone used biscuits to attach a face frame to a cabinet carcass, instead of going nasty pocket holes without glue.
My hero. LOL
Thanks
This guy does sh*t that makes no sense. Not using the fence like using the work service is more accurate. Why is he using as many buicuts as humanly possible? Seems odd to me
Thanks for this, I recently bought a biscuit jointer… These tips are great.
0:35 Is that a dangerous hand position?
Brilliant!!
genius… thank you. I am about to make some cabinets… I’m a hobby guy. Yesterday I took delivery of the Domino 500… but having watched this… aaaargh! So… Biscuit vs Domino?
I’m building bee hives, this tutorial has been absolutely invaluable.
Thank you.
First bit of useful advice I got from this? I need more clamps in my life… The rest was pure gold, and I love these ideas, but I can’t help being distracted over new things to buy, like clamps and biscuits…
Very useful thank you. Do you have a video on routering the edges as you mentioned to get a straight cut?