Any plans for wider dominos?
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Kev said:
Funny I was thinking of that term in relation to a different Domino concept yesterday. [smile]
I like your idea.
If it was built into a Systainer that had drop shoots in the bottom, it could refill the tenon Systainer while latched on top :
[big grin]Seth
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or a press to make your own and put glue grooves in
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It's called a Nicholson rasp...
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I am going to do a thread later on making a set of large oak gates using the Domino XL and shop made oak tenons but I will put a few pics up to show how I make them. It works for me.
I plane up lengths of oak 1m long to the dimensions of the domino width required, in this case 70mm and with the domino cutter 14mm I thickness the domino tenon to 13.5m.
Then on the router table use an ovolo bit to round over the edges. This puts a slight groove on either shoulder.
Then using a V groove cutter in the router table I put a number of V grooves the full length (how many depends on the width of the tenon) to allow glue/air to flow.
Hope these pics help
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I plane up lengths of oak 1m long to the dimensions of the domino width required, in this case 70mm and with the domino cutter 14mm I thickness the domino tenon to 13.5m.
Then on the router table use an ovolo bit to round over the edges. This puts a slight groove on either shoulder.
Then using a V groove cutter in the router table I put a number of V grooves the full length (how many depends on the width of the tenon) to allow glue/air to flow.
Hope these pics help
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Festoolfootstool said:
Mac!! [eek] [eek]
;D ;D i have a toothed cutter for glue joints on the spindle moulder but I would be a bit cautious about putting small sections next to that big cutter head going at 8,000 rpm!!
The router table option is safest to me, the grooves are a bit bigger than a standard domino.
With the XL being such an amazing machine you can make any size tenons up and groove them as many times as you want.
New territory at the moment but perhaps some more ideas will come from this discussion.
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woodguy7 said:
That was for Windmill John's benefit, you know he can resist anything but temptation!!! [drooling] [drooling]
Mmm, I have a sense of "Incoming flak" [scared] [scared]
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I am on the edge of my seat waiting for Guy`s up coming oak gates.
[popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn]
John
We wont discuss temptation OK?
[popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn]
John
We wont discuss temptation OK?
Good point Richard. For me when I make a mortise & tennon joint it has just enough slack to allow the tennon to push through with glue applied without leaving all the glue at the start of the mortise.
I think with Domino's they are so tight they have to have the grooves or the joint would be starved of glue.
Just my opinion & am also ready for the onslaught ;D
I think with Domino's they are so tight they have to have the grooves or the joint would be starved of glue.
Just my opinion & am also ready for the onslaught ;D
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No flak. I believe that the grooves are there to allow the domino to push all the way down into the mortise. Like a relief valve. It does help spread glue upwards thru the insertion action.
Peter
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