How do you join your face frames?

When making face frames, how do you do your joinery?

I use pocket hole with a Kreg Jig and sometimes biscuits.

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.

Rocker

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).

Mick

OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'? ;)

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Originally Posted by silentC

OK, perhaps I should say 'what's your preferred method'? ;)

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Skew nails, but that wasn't an option in the poll.

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:D :D :D

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

Mick

M&T for me...it took me long enough to get it right, I'm not going to learn another way as well!

Not far off amaking my first attempt, I was gonna use a M&T, I'll watch with anticipation now. :rolleyes: I feel all tingly :eek:

I voted whats a face frame..... cause I always thought that what me missis gave me every night :D :eek: :cool: Tonto

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

Go the mighty Triton Biscuit Joiner

Mortise & Tenon, have used pocket hole in the past and even earlier on Dowels.

Cheers :)

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.

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.

Nailgun :D
If I'm doing a better quality job - wriggle nails :o
next step up dowels :cool:
If its a top class job usually m&T though a halved dovetail is attractive. ;)