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My old boss said biscuit joiners are for guys who can't cut a joint, and I'm starting to think he was wrong
I ran into my old boss Dale at the lumber yard in Dayton about two weeks ago, and he went off on biscuit joiners again like he always did, saying real carpenters cut mortise and tenon and everything else is cheating. But I've been using mine on face frames for the last year and those joints have held up better than some of the hand cut stuff I did early on. Any of you run into that old school attitude, and did you ever change your mind one way or the other?
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felixw9918d ago
The "real carpenters cut mortise and tenon" line is the same one I got from an old timer when I first started. What worked for me was just keeping my head down and letting the work talk. I used biscuits on cabinet face frames and built-ins for years and not one callback on a failed joint. Meanwhile the guy who gave me grief had a dining table he built with hand cut tenons that wobbled after two winters because he never accounted for wood movement. Tools don't make the carpenter, knowing when and where to use them does. Dale can keep his chisels, I'll keep my biscuit joiner and we'll both still be working.
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