help with biscuit jointing

[tommer9]

Youll wreck it using electric planer ,, there only any use for rough timber removal ,,

 

Nonsense.

[Pat Ferrett]

Im probably to late with my input but to help prevent the top from cupping have the two boards with the growth rings on one board smiling and the growth rings on the other plank frowning (if you catch my drift) this pust the forces in opposition and the top has less chance of ending uo as a trough.

 

A good sand and sealer will help keep the wood stable:thumbup:

[treequip]

I made a contraption for a diy cabinet maker once, he brought an 8mm flat plate 6 feet long and a foot and a half wide, I welded a fence to one side with a gap in it to accommodate an electric plane which was clamped in place with some brackets and screwed rod.

 

It finished the edges of boards a treat. Only took an hour to make and cost a few quid.

 

It came back a few weeks later for a modification to accept a router so he could make mouldings.

[Hodge]

Love your profile pic mate

[Pat Ferrett]

If you,ve got a saw bench then you could cut a tongue and groove, or a loose tongue that way the face of the join can be tickled up with a sanding block and the join will have double the surface area for strenght

[tommer9]

Love your profile pic mate

 

Likewise:thumbup:

[treequip]

Love your profile pic mate

 

What can I say? Having done my share of cleaning up the mess such people leave clients in (often the elderly) I thought I would remind myself what scrotetastic looks like.

 

My homage to the dregs of the race.

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[wills-mill]

Well done- what a bit of pond life.....

 

[niftysteve]

Take them to a joinery shop, offer them a small fee and get them to put them on the surface planer. Buy a biscuit jointer for about £35 and some biscuis, job done to perfection.

 

agree with this but try and find a joinery shop that has a 4 sided planer this will sort all sides of the timber perfectly at once

[WoodED]

Oh gurus of timber

 

Im a bit new to the art of making my milled timber into pretty things, but Ive found some nice boards out of some oak ive milled, and want to make two of them into a top for a coffee table for my missus' birthday on friday. The two boards are as i want them now except for biscuit jointing them together.

 

What im really having issues with is getting them cut perfectly straight so that they will marry without a gap. Ive tried on my table saw, close but no cigar, and likewise with a skilsaw along a straight edge.

 

If theres a trick to it please tell me! theres only so many more times i can tke a blade width off the board without chopping it in for firewood!

 

A very frustrated Jim

 

but a cheap biscuit joiner to make life easier, and a pack of wood biscuits and evo stick glue