| Anyone using biscuits when building speakers? [message #29909] |
Wed, 15 August 2007 06:20  |
dbishopbliss
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As I have been looking around it seems that everyone uses butt-joints for their enclosures. The manager at my local woodworking shop has encouraged me to use biscuits and tongue & groove joints. I must say that glue up is very easy in comparison to my earlier attempts at butt-joints. Am I missing something or is it that they are so much more work that people don't bother?
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| . . . or is it that they are so much more work that people don't bother? [message #29954 is a reply to message #29909] |
Mon, 03 December 2007 19:33  |
Poindexter
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Hardly. The beauty of biscuit joinery is the amount of time you save, even over a plain butt joint. It makes the joint automatically self-registering, so you can just spread the glue and go. You don't even have to glue in the bisquit pockets; just slather a little on the biscuit itself. For me, it's a life saver for complicated box assemblies with a fast glue like T3 - I don't have to spend all those seconds getting everything registered. I think the main stopper for regular guys is getting the biscuit machine. Aloha, Poinz
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| Re: Anyone using biscuits when building speakers? [message #29958 is a reply to message #29909] |
Thu, 27 December 2007 15:53 |
Jeffery L
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I am a of rabbet and dado joints. They will line everything up for you.
I would also say it depends a lot on the type of wood you are gluing. Every wood holds glue differently and in each circumstance the strength of a butt joint will differ. I had an old box made from MDF using only glue, rabbet and dado joints. When it had served me well I decide to give it the old sledge-O-matic treatment and the joints never gave, the box did have a lot of 6" holes in it though.
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