Comments on: Half A Biscuit Is The Whole Idea http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/25/half-a-biscuit-is-the-whole-idea/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:41:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: fred http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/25/half-a-biscuit-is-the-whole-idea/#comment-290129 fred Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:00:30 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/25/half-a-biscuit-is-the-whole-idea/#comment-290129 Splines can also be made the old-fashionned way out of wood and applied with some wood glue into kerfs to strengthen mitered joints. Sometimes contrasting wood is used to make the splines stand out in a decorative way. This also works on casing - where a spline (rather than finish nails) will strengthen a corner and once the glue sets - make it near impossible for it to move. On high-end hardwood door trim we use splines and a couple of clam clamps (Chestnut Tool Co - or their Hartford near-equivalent) to make up the joints Lamello plate (biscuit) jointers are great precise tools (albeit more costly and less flexible than their Porter Cable competition.) From our experience with their tools - I would expect this sytem to be of high quality. Splines can also be made the old-fashionned way out of wood and applied with some wood glue into kerfs to strengthen mitered joints. Sometimes contrasting wood is used to make the splines stand out in a decorative way.
This also works on casing - where a spline (rather than finish nails) will strengthen a corner and once the glue sets - make it near impossible for it to move. On high-end hardwood door trim we use splines and a couple of clam clamps (Chestnut Tool Co - or their Hartford near-equivalent) to make up the joints

Lamello plate (biscuit) jointers are great precise tools (albeit more costly and less flexible than their Porter Cable competition.) From our experience with their tools - I would expect this sytem to be of high quality.

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