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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Woodwork biscuit

Unlike the common woodworking statement: Good woodworking projects use glue, the truth is that it takes much more than that. One of the most essential tools for excellent work working is wood biscuits. Biscuits are small discs that are oval in shape. Using a biscuit jointer they are inserted into their place. Biscuits of course have not always been around. Before biscuits were used, woodworking used wooden pegs but they serve the same purpose.

Biscuits you cant eat

Biscuits you can't eat? If you are talking about woodworking, this is true. If a woodworker wants to closely join two pieces of wood, he will use "wood biscuits" to do so. They are discs that are cut thinly to fit into a groove on each of the pieces to be joined.

Using glue alone to join the boards or pieces would not give enough strength. Wooden pegs or dowels used to be used, but biscuits are stronger and easier to use, especially if you use a biscuit joiner. The biscuit joiner cuts the grooves in each side of the wood; the biscuit is covered with glue and inserted in the grooves, giving a strong joint.

Wood biscuit explained

Wood Biscuits are very important joinery tools in woodworking and provide that extra stability projects often need. It has been said that good woodworking projects use glue, while great projects use a little more. In many cases, wood biscuits are that little more. Wood biscuits are small, oval shaped discs which join two pieces of wood together and are inserted by a biscuit joiner. Wood biscuits have not always been part of woodworking, though. Small wooden pegs were used in the past, but today biscuits are used when something stronger than glue is required.

CONCLUSION

Wood biscuits can be used on any joint project, but they can be very helpful in edge to edge joint projects such as a dining room tables, for instance. They are also useful in projects involving a miter joint, such as a picture frame. In projects with a T joint like a bookshelf, for example, biscuits can offer quite a bit of extra stability needed.