Cabinet Progress #5: Video Blog: Biscuit Boy

this is wonderful.
Very helpful for me!

Thank you

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Your welcome. Glad it’s useful to someone.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks. Useful to me too. I have a number of Boxes to build.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks for sharing.

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John are those face frames in the back ground for this job?

Dennis… Yes those are the faceframes. You can see them with doors in them in the third blog.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

John: have you marked the outside and inside of your rails and stretchers. Or is your slot perfectly in the center?

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

They only fit one way. Yes I marked them, and referenced all cuts off of the base of the biscuit joiner.

However to cut several of them so that the rails sit flush with the edge, I set up a fence along the edge of my cabinet and plunged down. Even though this references off of the base, the cut sets the rails a 1/16” in from the sides. I know that this won’t affect the strength of the cabinet, and that when I attach the countertop at some point I can shim. It’s a pride point.

But I wonder if there are any tricks to biscuiting the sides? I guess I can stand them up perpindicular to a work surface and cut them with the slot cutter sitting on the work surface. Any thoughts?

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

I don’t know anything about this type of joinery but don’t you need filler support strips to mount the draw guides to? Maybe they would give the box more stability as well as a stronger point of contact for the box. Like I said I don’t know anything about cabinet construction so don’t go by anything I say. Just food for thought.

The filler strips were added later. They are only there to give something for the drawer guides to attach to. They would not add strength.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks for clearing that up. I hope to learn to build a full set of cabinets here so these little videos help a lot. Thanks