User Manual

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One of the best inventions in wood-working in
the last 60 years is and remains the biscuit join-
ter. This machine was invented in 1955 by the
Swiss master cabinetmaker Hermann Steiner.
Biscuits are oval or elliptical 4 mm thick dia-
gonal grain wooden plates which are
inserted into a slot which has
previously been routed out.
In contrast to round do-
wels, their elliptical sha-
pe allows them to be
adjusted or aligned in
the 4 mm wide slot. This
makes it easier to position
the wood parts precisely for gluing. Abo-
ve all, the gluing surface of a biscuit is substanti-
ally greater than that of a round dowel. This, to-
gether
with the swelling of the biscuit when glue
is applied, leads to the extreme load bearing ca-
pacity and stability of a biscuit joint. All you need
to cre
ate a biscuit slot is the Multi-
purpose
Wood Jointer and an
ordinary commercial angle
grinder to drive the 4 mm
thick saw blade. When se-
lecting the angle grinder, you
only have to make sure that it
has a grip
on both sides so that
the Multi-pur pose
Wood Jointer can
also be attached on each side of the motor.
Otherwise almost any angle grinder will work
with the Multi-purpose Wood Jointer.
Biscuits
Fields of use of the biscuit
Due to its rapid and extremely precise application,
the biscuit is the ideal joining method for con -
struc ting furniture. It even makes it possible
to construct both complex installations in loft
spaces (left, above) and simple ...
... corner joints for constructing drawers (left, be-
low) rapidly and easily. Biscuits are particularly
well suited for mitring joints (right, above) and as
joints for kitchen worktops (right, below).
Biscuits Field of use of biscuits
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