Curved joints with the Domino 700

[stvrowe]

Almost 2 years ago I took an Arched Aurora Nightstand class taught by Darrell Peart and have fallen in love with the Greene and Greene style furniture.  I have now found the 'round tuit' and have started a matching G&G bed project drawing on design elements and techniques used in that class and Darrell's books.  The bed design is my own.  The biggest obstacle for me was to figure out how to join slats into a curved surface and the video link below shows how I did this. 

Curved Joints with the Domino 700

 

[Billedis]

Nice job, very informative video.

 

[promark747]

Steve,

Cool video...I like how you used the dogs to square the slats to the rail.  Just curious--instead of using a compass or the curved piece of Venetian blind to get the proper scribe line, would it have been easier to place the curved rail on top of the slats and then draw a pencil line?

 

[mouppe]

Nice technique. Thanks for making and posting the video.

 

[gkaiseril]

Nice example.

You can make some dominoes for dry fit by sanding the side ridges off the sides and also color code them so you do not use them for construction. This allows for easier insertion and removal for dry fitting.

 

[stvrowe]

Steve,

Cool video...I like how you used the dogs to square the slats to the rail.  Just curious--instead of using a compass or the curved piece of Venetian blind to get the proper scribe line, would it have been easier to place the curved rail on top of the slats and then draw a pencil line?

This is a good question; while it would have been easier, I doubt that it would have been as accurate or as fast.  Using this method provides no precise alignment to of the mortise in the slat to the mortise in the rail.  Since the profile of the slat is always changing based on it's position along the top rail, I believe the method demonstrated was very efficient and the most practical way to mark the slat.  I pretty much nailed the profile on all but one of the slats with only one visit to the disc sander.  This was out of 26 slats (13 each footboard and headboard).

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

Definitely a good video, Steve. I saw it this morning and shared on our Facebook page. Figured it would show up here at some point today.

Well done, sir.  [thumbs up]

 

[stvrowe]

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Making the video took longer than doing this operation for both headboard and footboard excluding making the jig.  Festool needs to develop the Videx (video express) to speed this process up.  [laughing]

 

[NYC Tiny Shop]

Like the Venetian blind slat idea for setting the curve line. Thanks, for posting.

 

[tiralie]

Nice video Steve.
I liked the one for the Lamello Zeta as well.
I was wondering what you were going to make/flatten with that jig?
Tim