How do you join your face frames?

[silentC]

When making face frames, how do you do your joinery?

[Barry_White]

I use pocket hole with a Kreg Jig and sometimes biscuits.

[Rocker]

I do it the easy way, and the best way, with mortice and tenon. Our descendants are never going to admire the quality of our pocket-hole joinery.

Rocker

[journeyman Mick]

Depending on where I'm working (in a workshop, on site, in a cramped boat bobbing on the water), what equipment I've got access to (lots to none at all) and the budget range of the client, I have used a variety of methods.
Biscuits, pocket hole, screw and plug (pretty standard on boats), M & T, loose tenon, butted and shot together from behind with a wriggle stapler :eek: (for the real low budget ones).

Mick

[silentC]

OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'? ;)

[bitingmidge]

OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'? ;)
Skew nails, but that wasn't an option in the poll.

P
:D :D :D

[journeyman Mick]

Depending on strength requirements either biscuit (most common) or occasionally loose tenon.

Mick

[AlexS]

M&T for me...it took me long enough to get it right, I'm not going to learn another way as well!

[outback]

Not far off amaking my first attempt, I was gonna use a M&T, I'll watch with anticipation now. :rolleyes: I feel all tingly :eek:

[Tonyz]

I voted whats a face frame..... cause I always thought that what me missis gave me every night :D :eek: :cool: Tonto

[craigb]

I voted M&T as per Rocker's reasoning.

On the other hand, if the face frame was just going on MDF or something cheap, then I'd probably use biscuits

[Kris.Parker1]

Go the mighty Triton Biscuit Joiner

[John Saxton]

Mortise & Tenon, have used pocket hole in the past and even earlier on Dowels.

Cheers :)

[Barry_White]

This has happened a couple of times lately, a post that is very old has popped up for no reason. The last time this one came up was September 2004 and yet when I clicked on "New Posts" this one was amongst them. Very mysterious.

[Grunt]

As soon as someone votes on a poll it pops up the top even though there hasn't been a post to the thread.

I think we should start putting closing dates on polls to stop this from occurring. We get newbies who have a look at the polls forum and vote for all polls there.

[echnidna]

Nailgun :D
If I'm doing a better quality job - wriggle nails :o
next step up dowels :cool:
If its a top class job usually m&T though a halved dovetail is attractive. ;)