On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:51:38 -0500, Greg Guarino
wrote:

I was considering buying a biscuit joiner to attach the "leg" pieces
together. I have no experience with biscuits, but from what I've seen on
TV (you can all snicker now), it doesn't look like you could fit a
biscuit into the end of a 1x2. Can you?

The Ryobi trim biscuit joiner that I have would.

http://woodworking.about.com/b/2011/...uit-joints.htm

There is a picture of it in the article.

Mark