Hi, I'm Joe
Today we're going to be using the bifurcator to attach this piece of wood to the front
of the shelf that I'm making. We're going to be using the router and a cutter that fits inside the router
It's simply two pieces with a bearing and it cuts the slot for the tape
One of these number 10 biscuits. This is going to be a piece of wood that's been clamped out and compressed already
When it comes into contact with a glue, it expands to fill the gap and holds your two
pieces of timber perfectly in line with one another. So let's get started
First thing to do is to choose how your pieces of timber are going to attach to each other
So I want my timber to fit flush across the top of the shelf here
So these are going to be my reference table and I'll mark them with a face mark
The next thing I need to decide is where my biscuits are going to fit
For this piece of timber, four biscuit joints is plenty. Possibly even too many to get rid of three
Depends what you're wanting and what purpose they are. So I mark where my biscuits are going to fit
Hold your two timber perfectly together. Make sure that all the lines match up
Do not come too close to the end, otherwise the cutter will cut out the end of your timber
and you'll show me the result. Okay, so there I have it all marked up
Today I'll be using a palm router, a quarter inch router. It's probably going to buy me a pizza, it's a fantastic pizza kit
I'll go ahead and put my cutter into my router. Okay, we're using the power supply
There's no chance this will turn on. It probably won't, I'll do that
A little bit awkward, this cutter is too big to go in first, so I have to attach it with a guide and plate
This is a little bit tricky. Make sure that the piece is far enough into the router, you'll see a guideline on it
There's a minimum depth that you can put into the cutter, into the collet
I'm using the tooth pad to come with the router. It's nice and secure in the router as well
Now I'm going to set the depth of the cutter. As you can see my mark here is where I'm going to cut
This is my reference face, which means that it's where I'm going to put the foot of my router
So while they cut, I'll have to put the presser carefully against the presser, making sure it's flat and stable, and then I'll push the router into the piece
So what I want to do is set the depth of the cut roughly to the centre of your piece of timber
It doesn't have to be perfect, because we're using two reference faces
This will align themselves at the end. Okay, now I'm going to secure my piece of timber to my work surface
I'm going to move as I'm working, using the visor of the piece
And I'm ready to cut. So this is where I'm going to make my cut, making sure my reference face and the guide of my router are carefully prepped together
And we'll make a cut. Using the line I've made is where I'm going to make my cut
And I'm ready to make my cut. We'll just check to see if the disc gate fits in there
And there we are, that's the first straight cut with the disc gate set in place
I'll remove that and we'll glue it in later once we're ready to glue the holes on together
So that's our first two-piece cut, with our four slots ready to insert our disc gate
We're next going to make the corresponding cuts on our lipped timber
in the right places using the lines that we made earlier. So I'll secure that piece of timber down so we can work on it safely
These discs can come in a variety of sizes. Today I'm using 10s
You want to choose a disc that's suitable for the thickness of the timber you're using. Make sure that your disc you're cutting won't burst out of the back of your computer
Ok, so that's all copies of the single-piece cut. Now just before I get the glue out, I'm going to do what we call a dry-fit
which is putting the joints together without any glue in them. So I'll align my disc gate with the marks that I made earlier
And secure the cut onto the shelf. And that's the first piece of timber that we're going to cut
Now we're going to cut the other piece of timber. So I'm going to cut the other piece of timber that I made earlier
And I'm going to cut the other piece of timber that I made earlier. And I'm going to cut the other piece of timber that I made earlier
And I'm going to cut the other piece of timber that I made earlier. And there we have it
And there we have it. As you can see, the two reference faces I used to reference my last draw
As you can see, the two reference faces I used to reference my last draw As you can see, the two reference faces I used to reference my last draw
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there
As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there As you can see, there's a nice straight joint there