I’m thinking OSB or plywood. Looking online at Lowe’s 7/16 osb is $15 a sheet and 15/32 plywood is $25 a sheet. Osb is prices better and would be just fine but I’m wondering is plywood is worth the extra cost. I don’t intend to have much hanging on the walls but I’d assume plywood would hold screws better.
I'm building a cabinet and this one section requires me to screw directly into a 1/2" plywood joint. I know that I'm mostly safe pre-drilling a hole that's hopefully straight but was curious what you guys recommend in this scenario to connect a clean 1/2" joint. This seam runs about 7 feet in...
I need to butt-joint two pieces of plywood with glue and screws. Will plywood tolerate having a screw driven into its edge (even with a pilot hole), or will the plywood split? What about butt-jointing normal wood, with the screw driven into end grain? How well will that hold up?
Don't just use glue for plywood miter joints. Your last choice is best of those listed because the biscuits. Fine Woodworking or some other wood magazine last month had an article about joining plywood miters with splines and/or with aluminum angles attached to wood that fit into mortises on each piece of plywood. Much more work to build it, but it wont suck the way a plywood miter would with ...
Hi All, I recently built a very nice outfeed table to aid myself when cutting large pieces, specifically ripping full 4×8 sheets of MDF and plywood. I am wondering if I'm missing something though - my friends all make it sound so damn simple, but I'm having trouble still with ripping full...