As my woodworking skills improve I slowly move into cabinetmaking. Cabinetmaking involves a lot of joinery. I am trying to realize what joinery method is best an when. As far as I understand there are pocket hole joinery, mortise-and-tenon, dowel and biscuit. To me dowel and biscuit seem to be the easiest and quickest. I understand that smallest biscuits are 2" wide so they cannot be used to join narrow stock. Do these two methods have drawbacks and which situations when they are not good choice. I already have PC Biscuit Joiner and feel pretty comfortable using it. I do not have doweling jig but it is not expensive so I can buy it if necessary. Any advise would be appreciated.
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19 years ago