hi, my name is kevin and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to show you a little bit about the biscuit joiner operation. a reallygood place to use the biscuit joiner is on the table saw because the table saw has anice steel surface that is machined very flat with the fence that is perpendicular to itso it?s a really good place to get good, accurate registration. we've got a couple test pieceshere. the way you use a biscuit joiner is you're connecting two pieces. we're goingto connect these perpendicular to one another because we're going to have a box that's goingto be connected like that on all sides. so what you're going to want to do is you'llput the two pieces the way you want them connected and so you get them lined up and then youmake a mark on each board that corresponds
to one another. as you can see here, we'vegot the pencil mark that is lining up to one another. you don't have to worry about beingsuper dead on, as long as they're very close, the biscuit joiner has a little bit of, theslot that it cuts is bigger than the actual biscuits so you've got adjustment side toside, so you don't have to worry about being super accurate on this as you do with otherjoinery which makes it a good economical alternative. you just kind of go make a bunch of quickmarks and then cut the joints. once you've made your mark, what you're going to do isyou're going to cut the first one here where the actual board is going into the other board.you can cut that joint first. then on the second one, what you're going to do is, orwhat i like to do is put on a little piece
of 150 grit sandpaper below the joiner sothat when you joint it, the jointer's slightly raised and so when you go to put these together,this board is just ever so slightly proud of this board. when you can come after laterafter the glue up, you can just wrap that flush to this surface with the router anda flush trim bit and get a nice, perfectly even plane between these two boards becausewith the biscuit joiner having a little bit of room to slide in there, you don't wantthis board proud of this one, that's a much bigger problem. but if you can get this boardjust slightly proud of that one with the little sandpaper trick, it makes it a lot easierfor really good accurate results. ok, we've got the biscuit in this slot here. we takethe other board and we put it on, a little
drive through here and i don't even know ifyou can pick up, but this board is just ever so slightly proud of that board and we caneasily take care of that with the router and a flush trim bit and get really good resultsbecause like i said, the other way, if this board were to come out proud of this one,it can make for a situation where it can just make for a real uneven joint and it?s a lotharder to deal with that than it is with this. this is going to make for really good accurateresults and is a good little trick to employ when you're using biscuits to do perpendicularjoints like this.