Ran a test with #10 biscuits on a right angle butt joint. End grain to long grain. Two biscuits in the joint. 24 hours later, pulled the joint apart, took less force then I expected. The biscuits pulled apart, some left in each piece.So my question is, does anyone make solid wood biscuits? Google didn't seem to have anything.Thanks, by the way, there is much info to be gathered here. Thanks for that too.

My questions are:a) What kind of biscuits are you using, anyway? AFAIK, they're *all* solid wood.b) Presumably, this was done as a test, a prototype for a project. Is there some reason you couldn't use a mortise and tenon, or at least #20 biscuits?

Solid wood biscuits??

Jun 05, 2005 27 Replies

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Lawrence Wasserman 21 years ago

Well, if you call a single bicuit-sized piece of solid wood a BIT...

But they ARE made from a single piece of wood, they are NOT made like particle board or OSB if that is what you are asserting. And usually from beech.

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Lawrence Wasserman 21 years ago

To the OP, by any chance are you using a Ryobi biscuit joiner?

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David 21 years ago

see my later post

Dave

Lawrence Wasserman wrote:

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Rumpty 21 years ago

This does sound like a mechanical problem, IMO. Also PC biscuits are CRAP.

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mac davis 21 years ago

or a Harbor Freight special, like my first one.. rofl

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

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Doug Miller 21 years ago

The only problem I've noticed with them is inconsistent thickness, which is easily solved with a wastebasket. What other problems are you aware of?

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Rumpty 21 years ago

Thickness as you say, imperfect cuts and Loose jagged edges. Lamellos are all the same thickness and no jagged edges.

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Doug Miller 21 years ago

I've observed the imperfect cuts and loose jagged edges too, but haven't found them to be problems.

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