24 Dominoes Later...

[DavidCBaker]

...I'm over my trepidation using this thing. I get a mental block with certain tools, including the domino. But they walked us through the adjustments and proper way to hold one in the recent class at Festool HQ, and so I gulped and decided to build my first piece of furniture with it.

Here's what I did this weekend, and it went swimmingly and as easy as pie. Each leg has four dominoes and the shelf and the top each have four dominoes to join the planks.

This will be painted, so I just used poplar. It'll go next to the couch as a lamp/book table.

I just need to keep diving in and figure things out as I go. Using the domino was actually very easy and very fun. It makes dry assembly a snap, too.

 

[tms0425]

Great work David!  Glad to see you've used the lessons learned on Domino and put them to good use.  Tom

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Beautiful piece, David.  Looks too good for paint, even in poplar!  [thumbs up]

 

[DavidCBaker]

Poplar is so much fun to work in. It doesn't split easily, forms like butter, cheap, available at the big box store, etc. Too bad it looks like poplar.  [cool]

 

[honeydoman]

yep that is nice looking, thanks for sharing.  and the domonio is very easy to use after the first couple of practices and learnig the little set up

it makes alignment and holding things together a snap

now go and make one for the other end of the couch and then a coffee table, then a dining room set , then a table for the front door foyer for plants, then a night stands, then a head board......... on and on and on !

 

[Ken Nagrod]

David,

You might want to get out the milk and cookies.  I think Kreg's stopping by for another one of his Festoolian visits to "help you out".

 

[DavidCBaker]

I hear that you have a new mobile "help for newbies" service going. Put me on your schedule.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

You need me to come over there and fix that deck?

 

[DavidCBaker]

You need me to come over there and fix that deck?

No kidding! It's in bad shape.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

You can hide it with more furniture!

 

[lumbajac]

Hey David - nice work.  I need to get the domino yet myself.

Wondering what you used to cut the curves?  I recall you not having a bandsaw so I am assuming a Trion perhaps?

 

[RONWEN]

Great job David!

 

[Rob-GB]

Very nice first furniture piece David.

Out of interest I worked out that if I charge my clients for the dominoes at a 25 per cent mark up I will need to use 61,100 4x20's or 20,366 10x50's to pay for the Domino machine! [eek] I guess all future solutions look domino shaped. ;D ;D ;D
Rob.

 

[DavidCBaker]

Hey David - nice work.  I need to get the domino yet myself.

Wondering what you used to cut the curves?  I recall you not having a bandsaw so I am assuming a Trion perhaps?

Yes, I have the Trion. I marked them with a cool jig I made on the MFT.

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Cool project David!  You have a good eye for a curve!

The Domino rocks for that type of project.

How did you connect the tabletop to the frame? 

Jess

 

[Waka]

David

That's a great looking table.
I know what you mean about the Domino, I was reluctant to use mine until I'd been shown how to get the best from it. Now it's full steam ahead and used on just about every project.
Thanks for sharing the table.

 

[Kevin D.]

Hey David - nice work.  I need to get the domino yet myself.

Wondering what you used to cut the curves?  I recall you not having a bandsaw so I am assuming a Trion perhaps?

Yes, I have the Trion. I marked them with a cool jig I made on the MFT.

Could you share more on this jig you made.  Or is this in a previous post/thread?

Nice work btw.  I'd paint it if it were mine.

 

[bruegf]

Poplar is so much fun to work in. It doesn't split easily, forms like butter, cheap, available at the big box store, etc. Too bad it looks like poplar.  [cool]

David,

Actually, poplar, after it's aged a couple of months,  has a very nice pleasing look when finished naturally.   I have a dining room table made of naturally finished poplar its gotten a lot of compliments.   Don't dismiss it just because of the greenish color you see at first.   All of that disappears after its aged a bit.

Nicely done David,  I think it would look really nice finished naturally.

Fred

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

It is just a little too soft I think for most people's tastes.
They don't want things to easily ding.

Me, I like the aged look.

 

[DavidCBaker]

How did you connect the tabletop to the frame? 

I used figure 8 fasteners, angled in a slight bit to account for any expansion.