On 3/21/2016 10:41 AM, notbob wrote:

Our local cabinetry shop, which got me started down this seemingly
endless road, makes its drawer boxes with baltic birch (ply), using
biscuit joints. Is there a cheaper alternative to BB ply?

Yes, AND there many more correct ways to build drawers than to misuse
biscuit joinery.

If they indeed do that, you should run the other way down that road as
fast as you can, as there is a no more shoddy way to build a drawer than
to use biscuit joinery ... a guaranteed, unarguably, misguided FAIL from
the get go.

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