welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're going to do some woodworking got myself a hunk
of wood here guys take a look at the end there there's the tank from Home Depot this is the
first time I've ran across this I just went and picked myself up an 8-footer won by three
guys this was never a 1x3 this must have been a larger board and all they did was cut it down
to size and it's still kind of furry there and I never noticed it but that's the first time I've
seen that before usually when it's milled one by three it's smooth on both sides I don't know what
they're pulling there but I'll be on looking for that in the future so what do you got going on
here today well I got this great and this is a uh in my hallway and it's for fresh air from my
hallway that goes into the furnace and as you can see when you buy these grates they're not actually
perfectly you know copacetic and everything so I want to box this in on all sides with the wood and
you could see here where the holes are offset so I'm gonna have the would go all the way around and
it's going to be sitting in flush and I'm gonna be using my table saw and for the first time I'm
going to show you a biscuit joiner I don't know if you guys ever seen a biscuit joiner or if you
have a used one I built all my kitchen cabinets with a biscuit joiner and glue not one nail not
one screw and it's all oak and it's never fallen apart them enough in a wall now for about a good
seven eight years and I love using a biscuit joiner I'll show you that in the future coming
up real soon but first let's get cutting to this and I'll show you how the table saw how I
do it and those guys that have one of these in your hallway like of course my house was built
in the 50s so it's got a huge big air intake a lot of houses today don't have a huge ductwork
system this one does I'll show you how I got to do this let's get to it right now okay take a look at
that right there you can see how cockeyed that is well that's what it's like when it's on the wall
so I decided to kind of put it in a frame like a picture frame so what I've done is I've I've
got it in there now if you take a good look you could see that what I've done is I'm gonna have
this sit flush to these boards so I actually have this so that the wood is under from here to here
I'll just take this off if I can probably better move around with one hand but you can see the idea
there so this is going to have an overlap over here now I have to take this material out and
make it the thickness of this right here now take a look at this furry wood here is uh pathetic or
what so first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna touch all this wood up with the belt sander so
let's do that first so let's get cleaning this up here and get all the fur off of this wood
okay let's start ripping it off the table saw well this is the set up right here so
I've measured the distance between here and here which is the same between here
in here just to cover this solid piece and I got my blade you can see it's just a tad
higher than the material and that's what I need and over here I've got my my frame and
of course I just put a mark on each one here just so I know which side to do and
facing up and where so you don't make no mistake so let's start cutting right now
okay so you get the idea here you can see where I've got the mark going there and
now I wanted ooh is that gonna rip this site here on the saw and that'll give me
my notch so let's take a look at that next well as you can see there I have the bleed
risen all the way up to the where I've got the slot there so it's just about in the
middle of that slot so it'll cut there and what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna move the
fence over so it just cuts out that little slot right there down so let's do that next
okay be super careful when you're doing this kind of stuff I've got a push stick keep your
fingers away from this kind of stings after a while so let's take a look see how I make
there we go there's the slot we need I'll do the rest and I'll bring you back well there we
are right there you can get the idea how this is going to go together here and I got it up on
the saw here and you could see now this screw is going to go into the wood and it's going to
be held in a lot better all the way around and to get the warpage out of it I'm gonna probably
have to maybe put some PL premium underneath that to hold it down so it's nice rather than putting
in more screws I don't know we'll take a look but that's pretty well lit there now and what
we're gonna do now is we have to attach all the four corners and we're going to do that with the
the biscuit joiner and it's so easy no screws no nails and it is just an ideal tool so let's
get to that next all I've done here is turned it upside down and what you want to do is just
put your board's nice and flush and way they're supposed to be and just put a mark like that on
all four spots and like you say they have to be well just like this and roughly in the center
now we'll get the biscuit joiner and I'll show you how that works okay I'll take a minute here
and I'll just explain all the different types of biscuits here's the zero biscuit that I'll
be using today and you could see the size of this and it's just a wooden pressed wooden disc that
is meant to work with the machine and it does a terrific job of lining up your corners and you
don't need to use no fasteners no nothing and they come in various sizes this is a bigger one here
you know number 20 and this is in between the 0 and the yeah the 20 number 10 and the whole
idea behind it is it makes a slot here you line up that mark that you've made and it puts this
biscuit right in there joins two pieces together I'm gonna show you how easy it is and I'll show
you mine this is a porter cable I really like the porter cable and the whole idea is well this has
a drop-down for like a longboard or something like that you can put it on but I'm not gonna
need that and on the side here if you take a look I don't know if you can see them numbers
rain in there but there's different sizes for your biscuits and what that does is you see the
blade coming out there I'll show you like this see the blade coming out and it only comes out
as far as the biscuit that you've selected which is just you know a no-brainer easy to do and there
is a depth adjustment between how high this is going up or down so you want to make sure that
when you're using it you wouldn't want to have it set so low that it would go into your slot
right so you want to have it right in between here and this side so right about in the middle
there no got to be perfect with it but all you do is you make your insert for your biscuit and
put some glue top it together seven and forget it I'm gonna show you how easy this is to do
I'll demonstrate on this one here and show you what it looks like okay I got you pretty well
zoomed in there and I do the best I can here but here's my line and here is a red marker
right here on the machine and it's as easy as you have to have a make your your tabletop you know
nice and flat and all you do really is you just hold this down flush keep your hands away from
of course or anything that's dangerous you just push it towards it and as you're pushing you can
see how this is moving forward and you just pull the trigger and I'll show you what it looks like
so there you go right there and the biscuit fits right in there so now we'll do the corresponding
side and I'll show you how it fits together so here's the corresponding side here and
same thing you just line up the mark that you had there before I can't get in your way there
here's the mark on that side and then the two pieces fit as easy as that all I have
to do now just put the glue in so here I've got a an overhead shot of how this looks and when I
first got the machine I was sinking so you can take the biscuit in and out and I first thought
okay what if I don't get that line matched up you know really nice on the backside there guys
look at this look at the play that you have here so after you put the biscuit in yeah you have to
you have to clamp it there is some play for adjustability there and that's the the best
part about it so I will put the biscuit in I'll glue it up and then biscuits actually
do swell up they're made to swell up and you'll never get that joint apart in a million years
I'll bring you back when I got it all glued up and we'll take a look and see how it turned out
well she's all done guys and there it is right there fits in there nice now all I did with the
router was just put a yeah just a nice little round over here guys it turned out just great
it's an easy project to do a couple of things about the yeah this is the end of the board it's
all I got left over from an 8-footer but if you take a look at this there's nothing on here that
is cheap it's all metal there's no plastic it's very well built and guys there's nothing cheap
about this including the price so it is quite expensive but let you say you want to get what
you pay for most times and there's very few times you get more for pay less but another example of
the biscuit joiner is if you're if you're building a project like this and most times what people are
doing is putting a mass of boards together making a table or something like that and you want all
the board's level this is the fastest way to go with the biscuit joiner you can just put them
biscuits in real easy and when they join up together they're not up and down and you're
not using no fasteners and same as this what do you think about this if you wanted to put like
a more detailed edge on that and rotor all the way along well if you had used nails you gotta
be careful about hitting them nails now where this here is a permanent solution works great
I've never ever seen them come apart guys I've actually cut them like across in a corner just
to take a look and see what they look like yeah them biscuits they do swell up and they don't
distort your wood or anything but yeah they make a tight seal I mean a big time so hope you like
this little project this is a nice easy job took me about an hour up in the shop here including
filming time and it's something that you could do too and like I say the biscuit joiner is a
great addition to the shop and you can see all the different tools that I had to use here and
they're all just you know like a great having fun out in the shop building something like
this so thanks for joining me here today you have seen this channel all you're welcome to subscribe
come back again and we're going to build some more projects like this in the future Cheers