How to Use a Biscuit Joiner

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Adding a Slot to Install Table Top Fasteners

When it comes time to install the top on a table, it is important to come up with an approach that allows the table top to expand and contract freely with seasonal changes in humidity. If we don’t accommodate this movement, bad things are bound to happen. The table top could crack, or the movement

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Biscuit Jointer: Register Off the Fence

Biscuit joinery came onto the hobbyist woodworking scene in the 1990s, and woodworkers have been using biscuits heavily ever since. Nothing beats a biscuit joint when it comes to a quick, lightweight substitute for a traditional mortise and tenon joint, or a spline joint. A biscuit joiner essentially creates a slot into which a pressed

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How to Use a Biscuit Joiner: Registering Off the Bottom

Woodworkers commonly use biscuits as a quick, lightweight substitute for dados, splines and tenons. For joints of these types, biscuit joinery provides a great option in situations where the joint does not demand extreme strength. As you learn how to use a biscuit joiner, it is helpful to understand the exceptional versatility that this tool

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Using a Biscuit Joiner: Reinforcing a Miter

Using biscuits to reinforce a miter on a box or cabinet? No need to set your biscuit joiner’s fence to 135-degrees (which is good, since some joiner fences don’t go that far), if you use the simple set up trick shown in this video.
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Using a Biscuit Joiner: Leg to Rail Offset

It’s very common to have a reveal between a leg and rail, which adds a nice detail to the piece of furniture. If you’re joining the pieces using a biscuit, don’t go through the rigamarole of changing the biscuit joiner’s fence to get the reveal. Use this simple trick instead.
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Using a Biscuit Joiner

Biscuit joiners are great for when you want to securely fasten a butt joint on your woodworking projects. George Vondriska teaches you how to use the biscuit joiner to attach a shelf at a 90-degree angle to the face of another board. A WoodWorkers Guild of America (WWGOA) original video.
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Clamping Biscuits

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.
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