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On Aug 6, 1:37 pm, Chris Friesen wrote:

You don't need either...just glue should be fine.

True enough.

You can certainly use
biscuits for alignment, but they don't help at all as far as strength of
the joint.

NOT true at all. This seems to be a widely quoted myth parroted
around here amongst the literati.

One minute of research will get EMPIRICAL research to show
differently.
You can get started he

http://tinyurl.com/6qjcu9

But to dismiss it out of hand as being useless is absurd.

Absolutely agree! ... to suggest that properly applied biscuit joinery adds
no strength whatsoever to the joint under question defies reason, logic,
personal practical experience, and more than one published testing.

There seems to be a proliferation of journalist woodworkers spouting these
"truisms" that are more former than latter.

I'll say it again: You gotta love the "wired world" ... the more "facts"
available from which to draw wrong conclusions, the more wrong conclusions
there are available as "facts".

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