Biscuit Joiner Handbook

by Hugh Foster

Totally revised, with all the latest models, this guide offers techniques and tricks of the trade. Explains how to do almost any type of joinery faster, stronger and more accurately. Plus: expert ratings of the pros and cons of the major brands, models and accessories, complete how-to information on edge-joining, butt-joining, and mitring techniques, a helpful checklist for maintenance and troubleshooting procedures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806968001
• ISBN13: 9780806968001
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the ins and outs of biscuit joining

I have owned 3 different biscuit joiners and I just recently reread this book. After owning three biscuit joiners and using a biscuit joiner for thousands of biscuits, I appreciate this book much more now than I did on its first reading. After noticing the weaknesses in the porta cable and the dewalt I finally got wise and bought the Lamello Top 20. Most of the illustrations in the book are from Lamello and most of the valuable tips work best with the Lamello. If your time has any value and you dislike sanding and scraping glue with a chisel this is an excellent book to own. They give great tips on how to get exact strong joints, but I know from experience that the Lamello is the only hand held machine out there today that has exact tolerances of less than .001. Most people that first buy a biscuit joiner would probably breeze right over the excellent tips and not even notice. Some of the woodworkers in the shop next to me still have not figured out how to use the biscuit joiner to its full advantage after 5 years of use. Their are two kinds of people, those who look at the words and those that actually read. I disagree with the previous review where the person compares the porta cable handbook with this book. I had a port cable and I gave it away because I thought it and its hand book lacked the finer points of what a wookworker really wants. The book gives an example of how you can cut, biscuit joint, and glue up a complicated bookshelf in 1 hour with no glue to clean up or uneven wood to sand. This book deserves at least two readings if not more. It might be a little out of date, but the tips that you need shall still apply. Learning how to use a biscuit joiner can save you time, and money that you might spend on other tools that you do not need. After 20 plus years in this business I am finally getting wise, and in a few more years I shall die like many masters of what they do and all of that knowledge goes with us. Thank goodness someone wrote a book of excellent wisdom to pass on.

very informative

lots of usefull info. and even includes safety info. this is an exellant book for the beginner and expert wanting to review their technic It even goes so far as to show detailed photoes of popular plate joiners. and print many facts about each.I dont think the writer told about making corner butt joints thourally enough though...keep in mind thats just one thing of many things that were coverd exellantly in the book worth the cover price.