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  • Dowel

    3 8.33%

  • Biscuit

    6 16.67%

  • Screw and Plug from the outside edge

    0 0%

  • Pocket hole screw from the back

    5 13.89%

  • Mortice and Tenon

    13 36.11%

  • What's a face frame?

    9 25.00%

  • Other - please give details

    0 0%
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  1. 2nd August 2004, 12:16 PM #1
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    Default How do you join your face frames?

    When making face frames, how do you do your joinery?
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  2. 2nd August 2004, 12:21 PM #2
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    I use pocket hole with a Kreg Jig and sometimes biscuits.
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    I do it the easy way, and the best way, with mortice and tenon. Our descendants are never going to admire the quality of our pocket-hole joinery.

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    Depending on where I'm working (in a workshop, on site, in a cramped boat bobbing on the water), what equipment I've got access to (lots to none at all) and the budget range of the client, I have used a variety of methods.
    Biscuits, pocket hole, screw and plug (pretty standard on boats), M & T, loose tenon, butted and shot together from behind with a wriggle stapler :eek: (for the real low budget ones).

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    OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'?
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'?
    Skew nails, but that wasn't an option in the poll.

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    Depending on strength requirements either biscuit (most common) or occasionally loose tenon.

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    M&T for me...it took me long enough to get it right, I'm not going to learn another way as well!
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    Not far off amaking my first attempt, I was gonna use a M&T, I'll watch with anticipation now. I feel all tingly :eek:
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    I voted whats a face frame..... cause I always thought that what me missis gave me every night :eek: Tonto
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    I voted M&T as per Rocker's reasoning.

    On the other hand, if the face frame was just going on MDF or something cheap, then I'd probably use biscuits
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    Default Go Triton

    Go the mighty Triton Biscuit Joiner
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    Mortise & Tenon, have used pocket hole in the past and even earlier on Dowels.

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    This has happened a couple of times lately, a post that is very old has popped up for no reason. The last time this one came up was September 2004 and yet when I clicked on "New Posts" this one was amongst them. Very mysterious.
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  15. 14th March 2005, 07:36 PM #15
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    As soon as someone votes on a poll it pops up the top even though there hasn't been a post to the thread.

    I think we should start putting closing dates on polls to stop this from occurring. We get newbies who have a look at the polls forum and vote for all polls there.
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