I've found that creative people are happy to share their ideas and techniques.
It's only those that have to steal techniques that try to hoard them.

This is it. I thought I would share these pics as a finally of the thread.



here I have both 3-0 doors on my MFT and am ripping them to size. Try that on an mft3!


A paperthin cut of endgrain. Isn't it perty?


The double doors as they will look from the outside.


The single door with operable sidelite.


3 more interior doors.


Time to go get the check.

Thank you,

Eiji Fuller

David,

I do use dominoes for doors but not the Festool manufactured dominoes. I make my own to fit the largest and deepest mortise the domi can make. I have a preference for making my own dominoes, they slip right in and the alignment is perfect. I believe that the festool dominos are too tight not allowing enough room for a strong glue joint. IMO that is why the published joint strength tests rated the domino so weak. I mean the dowel joints were stronger, something was definately wrong there.

I used my home made domino tenons to put together all of the rabbetted doors (glass) but did not document the use in this thread. I wanted to test out and document the operation of the OF-HF/1400 in making large mortise and tenon joints but I think my dominoes would have been just fine. and plenty strong enough for these doors. I have built larger doors with dominoes and they have held up great. You have to remember that there are four joints in a single panel door that reinforce each other. And when building a door with more panels there are even more joints in the frame.

In the future I plan to test out a lock mortiser for making the large mortises. Man talk about fast. I will test it with the virutex mortiser because it can be used horizontally and has dust extraction. Anyone want to send me a virutex lock mortiser?

Eiji,

After many months I finally got around to reading this thread.  Fantastic job all around - in design, description, photography and completeness!  In my opinion your very complete description of how to make these entry doors with sidelites is deserving of more than one Festool prize.  I have made many small interior cabinet doors with raised panels but never before considered making passage doors.  There are many great write-ups of many great projects using various Festools, but yours tops all that I have read so far.  Thanks for sharing your design ideas, including actual dimensions for various components, methods of work including jigs and stop blocks and various Festool products.  I'm still working in Imperial units most of the time but slowly learning to make use of stops and other methods of transferring needed dimensions rather than measuring and marking because the transfer methods appear to be more accurate and reliable/repeatable.

P.S.  Great sword and even greater sword bearer and sister!!  I hope she has "hers" by now.

Dave R.