Now that you know what a biscuit joiner is for, you might be thinking of picking one up yourself for your next bout of home woodworking. If you're in the market, Makita's 18V LXT cordless biscuit ...

Biscuit joiners are handy machines that use a 4-inch circle blade to create a curved slot that accepts small, football-shaped pieces of compressed wood, usually beech, to create a stronger joint.

A biscuit joiner (also sometimes called a plate joiner) works by cutting a slot in two boards, which are then aligned and glued using a small oval piece of wood called, obviously, a biscuit.

The Zeta P2 is the profile biscuit joiner for Lamello’s P-System connector range that can be used to join components in solid wood, plywood, MDF, particleboard, plastics, solid surfaces and more.