Need help with pine plywood...

Dewy · 16 May 2005

All biscuit cutting blades are the same diameter and kerf (thickness.
100mm dia and 4mm thick.
Yo can get a router cutter for cutting biscuit slots but as the diameter is smaller you have to cut it a bit longer than just a plunge cut.
I use both depending on what I am doing at the time.

petewood · 17 May 2005

Dewy said:
All biscuit cutting blades are the same diameter and kerf (thickness.
100mm dia and 4mm thick.

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If you look at the biscuits Salem is using you will see that a 4mm thick blade would be too thin.

Dewy · 18 May 2005

I doubt very much whether lincoln or wagon wheels would hold boards together.

All compressed beech biscuits are under 4mm but swell up with the moisture in the glue making a tight joint.
They should be stored in an airtight container preferably with a bag of silica gel to prevent moisture in the atmosphere causing them to swell up before use.

salem2000 · 18 May 2005

Dewy said:
I doubt very much whether lincoln or wagon wheels would hold boards together.

Doh, I was wondering why all my projects kept falling apart

By the way, anyone know why I keep getting splinters when I have a cuppa......

Salem.

petewood · 18 May 2005

Hope you keep your biscuits in an airtight container, I find this is particularly important with digestives!

Actually we once left some Freud biscuits in a pot of water overnight and found that the swelling was only about 0.1mm and they still slid fairly easily into the slot. We used to use 200 - 300 biscuits per week without ever actually putting any adhesive into the slot, only on the faces to be joined. In 2 years I never knew a joint to fail.

ban-all-sheds · 20 Sep 2005

petewood said:
I pay about £12/sq.m for laminated pine

OOI, where do you buy yours?

What's the largest size obtainable?

Do you know if they are all much of a muchness, qualiy wise, or are some manufacturer's products better than others?

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