Biscuit joiner handbook - Softcover

Hugh Foster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806968001 ISBN 13: 9780806968001

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 1989

Synopsis

Make attractive, durable joints, eliminate time-consuming mistakes, and find shortcuts around hours of tedious work. Totally revised, with all the latest models, this guide shows every facet of each machine, and explains how to do almost any type of joinery. Plus: expert ratings of the major brands, models and accessories, complete how-to information on edge-joining, butt-joining, and mitring techniques, a helpful checklist for maintenance and troubleshooting. "Foster provides a wealth of information about the use of this tool."-- "LJ

. "Anxious to delve into a relatively new method of wood joinery? Try this book...a complete rundown of the when, how, where and how much aspects of the method."-- "Booklist

. 192 pages, 229 b/w illus., 8 x 10.

About this title

From Library Journal

Be careful that this title doesn't get in with the cookbooks; the biscuits in question are made of pressed wood, not flour, and will surely give your patrons indigestion! Biscuits are used much like dowels to hold projects together; a biscuit joiner is a tool that cuts the slots for them. Biscuits have been popular in Europe for years but are a recent arrival in most U.S. workshops. Foster provides a wealth of information about the use of this tool. However, fully half the book is devoted to in-depth descriptions of particular models of tools and accessories, and the majority of readers will be bored by such excess. Biscuit joiners are, comparatively speaking, an easy tool to operate, so most collections do not need this book. Only comprehensive collections need consider.
- Jonathan Hershey, Akron-Summit Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Woodworkers have for years used such traditional methods of joining two pieces of wood as dovetail and finger joint, but biscuit joinery is a method that's not only faster but maybe stronger. What Foster accomplishes here is a complete rundown of the when, how, where, and how much aspects of the method. Although a book like this tends toward overkill (after all, showing the many models of biscuit joiners comes to seem like advertising for them), there's enough information in it to convince most woodworkers who now turn their noses up at this newfangled technology that there just might be something to it. Meanwhile, once those who work wood for profit notice that they can crank out, say, a bookcase in half the time by using biscuits, they will become biscuit joiner devotees. Jon Kartman

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806968001
• ISBN 13: 9780806968001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Michael Cea