Biscuit size for drawer

Cut rabbet on both sides of the drawer front and drive nails through the side into the rabbet. No biscuit needed. Done that on a chest of drawers, and they seem to hold up well.

"Joel" wrote in news:1169745152.895808.276220 @q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Yes. Watch your work carefully. Read Bob Lang's piece on using a biscuit jointer in the last Pop Woodworking.

Patriarch

Frank Klausz has a video called, strangely enough, Biscuit Joinery. He uses thin stock as a shim to put biscuit slots centered in plywood edges as a quick way to do drawers. Can't remember the sizes of plywood he used but I do remember he used several sized of biscuit and a PC joiner. I used that technique for drawers in all my shop stations a little over two years ago and they're holding together just fine. And he was right, it was quick.

Like another post stated, use a rabbet on the front, dado on the back. Easy.

Seems like using a biscuit joiner would be easier than setting up the table saw up to cut rabbets and dados.

Joel

I've used biscuits with 1/2" BB & it worked out OK. I recall having some problems with splintering of the surface plys when the slots were close to the end of the board; with the 1/2" thickness, for a 90d joint the slot will be only about 1/8" from the end of the board. It may have been more related to the quality of that particular batch of ply, though.