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   jagwah | Feb 11, 2009 08:47am | #1

   Stan, I used to think biscuits were the rage and used them for everything but now mostly I only use biscuits for help aligning items.

   Like glueing up tops,but I don't glue the biscuits anymore just put them in dry. I'll use them in joints of big crown on long runs.

   I do like to use them when I attach my face frames to my cabinet carsasses.

   Now for pocket screws I use them in quit a lot of different ways, assembling face frames, constructing cabinet boxes and just about anything that meets at a right angle.

   Pocket screws allow for more time in assembly than biscuits. And if you mess up they're a bit more forgiving if you need to dissasemble.

   I would seriously consider using pocket screws in stair building but I thought you did?

    

    

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   calvin | Feb 11, 2009 02:26pm | #2

   Another Stan,

   manA Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   http://www.quittintime.com/

    

1. 
   john7g | Feb 11, 2009 03:04pm | #3

   >Another Stan,<

   SanFraniStan vs SpiralstairiStan (aka DewaltiStan)

1. 
   calvin | Feb 11, 2009 03:15pm | #4

   They are everywhere.  No telling where they might turn up.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   http://www.quittintime.com/

    

2. 
   jagwah | Feb 11, 2009 04:27pm | #7

   My bad, sheesh!

   So Stan the man ain't the man Stan.

   This is a Dude I mistook for another Dude, who is "The Dude"!

    

   Edited 2/11/2009 8:29 am by jagwah

   Edited 2/11/2009 12:09 pm by jagwah

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   glenn_storey | Feb 11, 2009 05:15pm | #9

   el duderino? the dude abides.

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   Snort | Feb 11, 2009 03:33pm | #5

   We're doing a stain grade job with 2 1/4" casing and using biscuits.

   Same job we're making up 9" mahogany jamb stock out of 1 x 6... pocket screws.

   http://www.tvwsolar.com

   I went down to the lobby

   To make a small call out.

   A pretty dancing girl was there,

   And she began to shout,

   "Go on back to see the gypsy.

   He can move you from the rear,

   Drive you from your fear,

   Bring you through the mirror.

   He did it in Las Vegas,

   And he can do it here."

1. 
   wane | Feb 11, 2009 04:17pm | #6

   I don't like biscuits as much for miters or angles, they slide about when your not looking ...

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   john7g | Feb 11, 2009 04:28pm | #8

   I find that biscuits work fine if your trying to keep the faces of the mitered pieces aligned and not using glue. 

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   jagwah | Feb 11, 2009 05:25pm | #10

   Here's a photo of my using pocket screws to create a 1930 replica radio for a play. In theater construction looks is everything. I thought I was doing the cabinet quicker this way but It surprised me how much better it came together.

   Normally I would have used dadoes or mitres and biscuits.

    

    

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   Stan | Feb 11, 2009 07:29pm | #11

   Thanks everyone.  Late Sunday I ordered the Kreg Master Pocket Hole Jig (Okay, hold down the ooooo's and ahhhhh's...I know, I know.)  and I was wondering if I should add the PC Biscuit Joiner to my mix of tools or use the $$$ for maybe a Makita Impact Driver.

   As for the comments about "Stan."  I could be the dude and the other Stan's out there could be the dudes...but what we are not are a bunch of Dudettes (no offense ladies...I like dudettes...which are not to be confused by....well that is another story.)  But the long of the short of it is you cany call me HandyStanley."Projects beget projects and projects beget the need to buy new tools and that is what the cycle of life is all about."

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   fingers | Feb 12, 2009 01:27am | #12

   I've got the Kreg and the PC  bisquit joiner.  I use the pocket screws a lot more since I got the Kreg.