I have a Freud, and it's been so long since I used it that I had to go
out to the shop and blow the sawdust off the case to see what kind it
was. I got it probably fifteen years ago, and I'll bet it's been ten
years since I used it. I did a couple of projects with it then either
lost interest or found other ways to do the same thing. It seems that
biscuit joiners were a huge fad about 15-20 years ago, mostly
Norm-driven I think. Now the huge fad is pocket hole drilling jigs.
Like someone else said, if you have a router you can probably make that
work almost as well for a lot less. Routers, now there's another huge
fad...but I have five of them. No, six. The big one is permanently in
the router table.
Dave C
Mark Andy wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Looks like I'm going to make some built in bookcase/cabinets for my
> office. I'm a relative newbie to finish woodworking. Done a decent bit
> of rough carpentry and some metal machining though.
>
> Anyway, I think I want to use biscuits rather than screws or dovetails
> or whatever. So I want to buy a biscuit jointer / cutter to make that
> process easy.
>
> Any recommendations? I'm looking for something easy to use primarily. I
> don't have any religion problems with chinese or name brand stuff. I'll
> be using this for the occasional home project only.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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