nora54•13d ago

Switched from dowels to biscuits after a shop visit

I was dead set on dowel joinery for cabinet face frames for about 5 years. Then I stopped by Anderson Millwork in Portland last month and the old guy there showed me how they use a biscuit joiner for everything. He ran a test joint and I could not pull it apart by hand. I still keep dowels for alignment on panels, but do you guys use biscuits for face frames or stick with pocket holes?

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skyler_fox7213d ago

Hold on. Five years of dowels and you're telling me one old guy in Portland convinced you to switch that fast with a single test joint? That's wild. Can't say I blame you, though, biscuits are pretty tough.