I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?

Thanks - Joel

On Jan 25, 11:12 am, "Joel" wrote:
I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?


Cut rabbet on both sides of the drawer front and drive nails through
the side into the rabbet. No biscuit needed. Done that on a chest of
drawers, and they seem to hold up well.

"Joel" wrote in news:1169745152.895808.276220
@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?

Thanks - Joel


Yes. Watch your work carefully. Read Bob Lang's piece on using a biscuit
jointer in the last Pop Woodworking.

Patriarch

On Jan 25, 11:12 am, "Joel" wrote:
I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?

Thanks - Joel

Frank Klausz has a video called, strangely enough, Biscuit Joinery. He
uses thin stock as a shim to put biscuit slots centered in plywood
edges as a quick way to do drawers. Can't remember the sizes of plywood
he used but I do remember he used several sized of biscuit and a PC
joiner. I used that technique for drawers in all my shop stations a
little over two years ago and they're holding together just fine. And
he was right, it was quick.
http://frankklausz.com/biscuitjoinery.html

On 25 Jan 2007 09:12:32 -0800, "Joel" wrote:

I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?

Thanks - Joel


Like another post stated, use a rabbet on the front, dado on the back.
Easy.

Seems like using a biscuit joiner would be easier than setting up the
table saw up to cut rabbets and dados.

Joel

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Joel wrote:
I need to build a drawer for a kitchen cabinet approx 24W x 6H x 23D. I
don't want to mess with dovetails or finger joints. I could use dowels
but I am wondering if a #0 biscuit would work with 1/2" Baltic birch
plywood?

Thanks - Joel

I've used biscuits with 1/2" BB & it worked out OK. I recall having
some problems with splintering of the surface plys when the slots were
close to the end of the board; with the 1/2" thickness, for a 90d
joint the slot will be only about 1/8" from the end of the board. It
may have been more related to the quality of that particular batch of
ply, though.



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