Thread: Where to buy biscuits for biscuit joiner?

I normally buy mine at bunnings as I only use small quantities, you can buy them by the thousand at lincoln sentry and places like that.

Robert

Hi Com_VC,
I know of Woodies making their own out of 3mm MDF, & it comes in sheets as a Guard for Laminex.
Now this was a few years ago, but would 3 Ply do the same job.
My Friend would stack smallish pieces & nail the ends, to keep them together, cut them roughly with the Bandsaw & then sand them.
He used this method in making Kitchen Tables, using Blackwood 8in.wide, & putting the pieces together that way.
Regards,
issatree.

Originally Posted by issatree

Hi Com_VC,
I know of Woodies making their own out of 3mm MDF, & it comes in sheets as a Guard for Laminex.
Now this was a few years ago, but would 3 Ply do the same job.
My Friend would stack smallish pieces & nail the ends, to keep them together, cut them roughly with the Bandsaw & then sand them.
He used this method in making Kitchen Tables, using Blackwood 8in.wide, & putting the pieces together that way.
Regards,
issatree.

but the pine biscutes are dried out, very very very dry so much so that when they have contact with PVA they swell up to hold the joint together

One of the concerns I have with biscuits is that if the timber is subject to moisture that the biscuits will swell more than the main timber and cause splitting. As much of my Paulownia goes into water craft especially Alaia boards I use and sell biscuits made of Paulownia. It is not hard to strip some timber on the band saw and dress it down to the required thickness.

Whitewood.

Com Vc

I get mine from "Wilson & Bradley" at tghe rear of 100 Bell St, Preston

At Bunnings there about $25 per 100 at Wilson & Bradley ther @ $45 for 1000

There beside Boc Gas.

Pappy

I bought the pack from carbatec -.3 kinda of biscuits plus a glue bottle - easy way to get started.