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Ryobi/Crafstman detail biscut joiner comments
After running across the term "R1 biscuit" and googling it and finding
out what they were, I've repeatedly had project in which I said to myself "gee, one of those detail biscuits would be nice right here". Well, was down to Sears yesterday and they had one in stock, I bought it on impulse. Tried it out today. It does what they say and the biscuits really _are_ tiny, here's a photo with the Porter Cable FF on the end for comparison http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=319761020&size=m. I find one major flaw in the design of the tool so far--the fence has a bevel adjacent to the cutter that is wide enough for quarter inch stock to slip into. This is not a problem when slotting an edge or end but makes accurate slot placement very diffcult when slotting into the side of a piece of stock. When time permits it doesn't look like it would be too hard to make up a new fence that addresses this. A minor flaw is that the fence position is adjustable in fixed increments and the increments--given the nature of the tool a micrometer adjustment would be very convenient, but for 70 bucks maybe I'm expecting too much. Other than that, well, it's a neat concept. The biscuit are thin, it really is possible to put them in the edge of a piece of 1/4 inch stock, which is what I was looking for. I'm not sure why this tool didn't do better in the market, perhaps it was a case of the marketers not understanding the niche it fits. Or maybe with work that size it's just easier to slot it on a router table. For picture framing it looks like the bees' knees, for small boxes and the like out of the box it's not so hot. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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