TheLastTool
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Hi,
I'm a new Domino XL owner, in fact its my first Festool tool but certainly not my first tool! I'm having some issues with my first glue up and hope someone can offer some solutions.
I'm making a table top from 6 oak boards that are 1900mm long, 29mm thick and widths ranging from 125mm to 230mm. I've planed all the joints on a planer (and I checked that the fence is at 90 degrees) and when dry fitting them without dominos the joints are pretty much perfect. I'm using 12mm x 80mm dominos which I've cut from the Festool 750mm lengths and bevelled the edges as someone on this forum suggested. I cut 40mm mortices with the Domino about every 185mm to give me 9 dominos along the length of the board. The mortice at one end was cut tight with all the others cut on the loose setting. I brush glue on the face of each domino and a light coating in the mortices.
The two problems I'm experiencing are:
1. Even though I'm using 7 Bessey REVO KRE clamps it's a major struggle to bring the two boards together and it requires some major force with the clamps wound up as tight as I can get them.
2. The finished joint isn't as good as the dry fit, i.e. you can see the joint because the two faces don't mate perfectly.
Many thanks in advance.
Graham
I'm a new Domino XL owner, in fact its my first Festool tool but certainly not my first tool! I'm having some issues with my first glue up and hope someone can offer some solutions.
I'm making a table top from 6 oak boards that are 1900mm long, 29mm thick and widths ranging from 125mm to 230mm. I've planed all the joints on a planer (and I checked that the fence is at 90 degrees) and when dry fitting them without dominos the joints are pretty much perfect. I'm using 12mm x 80mm dominos which I've cut from the Festool 750mm lengths and bevelled the edges as someone on this forum suggested. I cut 40mm mortices with the Domino about every 185mm to give me 9 dominos along the length of the board. The mortice at one end was cut tight with all the others cut on the loose setting. I brush glue on the face of each domino and a light coating in the mortices.
The two problems I'm experiencing are:
1. Even though I'm using 7 Bessey REVO KRE clamps it's a major struggle to bring the two boards together and it requires some major force with the clamps wound up as tight as I can get them.
2. The finished joint isn't as good as the dry fit, i.e. you can see the joint because the two faces don't mate perfectly.
Many thanks in advance.
Graham