The Biscuit Joiner Project Book: Tips & Techniques to Simplify Your Woodworking Using This Great Tool

by Jim Stack

The biscuit joiner has revolutionized woodworking by enabling woodworkers to create joints that are incredibly strong and durable. This book provides woodworkers, hobbyists and furniture makers with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558705929
• ISBN13: 9781558705920
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Push the envelope on biscuit joinery

I can see why other reviewers were disappointed in this book, but I was not. I believe this book is true to its title, The Biscuit Joiner Project Book / Tips and Techniques to simplify your woodworking using this great tool. It promised to be a project-oriented book, not a tutorial on the tool.After an introductory chapter on the biscuit joiner and how to use it, why biscuits work and areas where they are not so appropriate (the tutorial), there are 12 project chapters. The projects range in style and complexity and the beginner or the expert can find a skill-appropriate project.In each of the projects, the biscuit joiner plays a key role in the construction process in ways traditionally done by other means. So the author leads the reader to exploring new uses for the tool. The astute reader will pick up on a number of techniques related to the use of the tool, but also great hints and techniques such as laminating curved work, angled work, free-form work, clamping odd shapes, and jigs and fixtures not only for the joiner, but routers and other tools. As such, it doesn't just come out and say, there are 17 ways to use a biscuit joiner and then go into detail on each (which I find a bit boring), but leads the reader on a path of discovery. With woodworkers I've talked to each has used a biscuit joiner, but has a few applications where they regularly use it. This book encourages us to expand our thinking the same way the author did when writing the book.The author starts off by saying, "This book was a test to push the limits of the biscuit joiner. It did not fail anywhere."