On ebay if anyones interested.
They're not bad for the price and cut an excellent clean slot. :-)
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Biscuit cutters for the router
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I prefer to dunk my biscuits in my coffee
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You must have no teeth the. ;-)
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Seriously. What is a biscuit in this context?
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They're for joing two pieces of wood together to give strenght to the join.
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The message from "The3rd Earl Of Derby" contains these words:
And jolly good they are, too.
Though the router solution works, a proper biscuit joiner isn't very expensive and is far more versatile. For example, it's hard to put a slot in the middle of a panel with the router.
I've got a Ferm machine and though there are ways in which it could be better it's certainly good enough.
Plenty on eBay.
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Better still, they keep the surfaces pretty much aligned but allow slight movement lengthways. Good for fabricating larger panels from strips of timber, also good for light duty corner joints when making carcass's.
As Skipweasel said, a proper jointer, even a cheapo is much easier than a router.
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Yup, go along with that. Having done it both ways, the router option is far from ideal in many respects.
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The message from "The3rd Earl Of Derby" contains these words:
How would you put a slot in the middle of a large panel using a router at all?
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Heh!
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Using a straight fluted cutter!
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On a table is better, but is still a very poor relation to using the correct tool. Firstly it is the wrong radius cutter, so you have to elongate the cut by a variable amount to match the size of biscuit in use, second you loose the speed and freedom of use that you get with the handheld machine that allows you to sink biscuits very quickly - especially on partially assembled work which would be trickey getting on a router table.
Used freehand, the router cutters are a liability since it is sow easy to spoil thw work with one careless movement that moves through the cutter rather than round it (DAMHIK)!
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The message from John Rumm contains these words:
Bloody smartarse! I'l stick with my biscuit joiner - far easier, neater, produces the right size slot without having to set up a fence to follow and so on.
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Quite agree, but you did ask! ;-)