Biscuit joining expectations

[Edwin Pawlowski]

I'll save you a lot of time, Bruce. I tried it and it is a PITA and does not spread the glue all that well. Use an acid brush and be done with it.

[GerryG]

[Treetops]

[CW]

[GerryG]

biscuit joining

brushes 's acid brushes many others have them also.

They are (very) cheap, small, disposable brushes. A small, shaped piece of th>About to glue up a 500 biscuit project so any glue aid would be nice. What is an

acid brush? And how does it help with biscuit glueing?

[mac davis]

acid brush? And how does it help with biscuit glueing?

I've never tried this, but it might be worth testing one of those bbq sauce squeeze bottles with the brush on the end.. 500 biscuits is a LOT of gluing...

when you're doing that many, cleanup of an applicator isn't that big of a deal... I wouldn't try it for a 10 or 12 biscuit project...

mac

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[Bruce]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:27:57 -0700, Treetops wrote (in article ):

Others have already shown you what they are but if you use a lot of them the set of 50 sold by Harbor Freight when on sale are a good buy (something like $1.99/50)

I recommend either clipping the bristles to about 1/2" long or wrapping a piece of tape around the base o the bristles to keep them from spreading out too much.

-Bruce

[BillyBob]

Amazon has an 800 number with a real person on the other end. I've called them to check on an order before and I got an American English speaking person in a couple of rings.

Bob

[Treetops]

Thanks all for the brush info. As it turns out, I bought some of these = brushes last week at local woodworkers store. They were labeled = "disposable" not "acid" but being next to other biscuit stuff figured = they might be good for glueing. Now I know for sure as the good people = at the wreck have educated me!! Also bought a $5 biscuit glue dispenser. Will give it a try althought = others in this thread didn't give it high marks. Bruce's suggestion of trimming these brushes to 1/2" sounds good; they = don't seem stiff enough as is to keep shape very long. This project is still on the drawing board and involves 10 cabinet = carcasses for my home entertainment room. Am a biscuit newbie so reading = up a lot on the subject. But spring is almost in the air so this = "winter" project may wait till next year.

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[Duane Bozarth]

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Maybe I'll have to try that again...when I last tried, it was 10 minutes of "we value your call"... :(

Aside--wrt to the delay since last October on shipment of Freud planer knives that prompted the complaint...

After specifically requesting they turn off the auto-timeout function on the notification of delay robot as I didn't care much about delivery date since I am ordering the extra set of knives for inventory when I do need to send the carbide knives off for sharpening, yesterday I got an auto-generated cancellation notice. So, apparently they shut of the notification 'bot but not the cancellation 'bot... Smart! :(