Domino joinery without a Domino

[Rocker]

According to Woodcraft Magazine, Whiteside now make solid carbide spiral-upcut bits in metric sizes suitable for use with dominoes. Router owners who want to use dominoes for floating-tenon joinery can now do so. They can achieve similar accuracy in routing mortices to that of a Domino machine, if they build one or other of the morticing jigs for which free plans can be downloaded from my blog, see below. Probably after a time many will want to go the extra mile and eventually buy a Domino.

David

 

[ROb McGilp]

They can achieve similar accuracy in routing mortices to that of a Domino machine, if they build one or other of the morticing jigs for which free plans can be downloaded from my blog, see below.
David

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[Warrior]

Maybe Whiteside could make some domino cutters for the Domino. I know some have expressed a want of  a 3mm cutter. I would love to have a 10mm cutter that is a bit longer taking advantage of the space between the end of the cutter and the Domi's face. I think its about 4mm.  31-32mm deep mortises would be strong!

 

[Mirko]

Guys
The bits thread on, maybe you can chuck them in a lathe and drill and tap the bits you would prefer to use?

Mirko

 

[ROb McGilp]

Mirko,
This issue of length and diameter of bits has been a pet issue of mine since I purchased Frauline Dominatrix gerdiggen .
You are right on the money. In my mind I see a "collet" for want of a better word, precision threaded at one end to attach to the domino and with a collar at the other, which have an Allen key to hold the cutter of choice.
I have thought that torque and forward thrust during the pendular routing process may render certain cutters unsuitable. I now believe this would be the case on larger and possibly deeper bits, but should not be an issue down to, say to 3 or 3.5mm. This would make routing drawer sides an absolute breeze when using plywood or MDF for bases. Use the same tool for all dadoes and joints when assembling drawers.

Regards,

Rob

 

[Warrior]

Mirko,
I was thinking it might be easier for whiteside to drill and tap those bits for us.

 

[Mirko]

Eiji,
Yes, and it would be cheaper to modify an existing bit. I was thinking that spindle boring and CNC bits have a threaded hole on the ends, its fitted with a grub screw thats turned to fine tune the depth of bore on those kind of machines. The down side is you can't rout with them, only plunge.
Its possible that higher end plunging router bits have a similar feature, I thought you could drill out the threads and re tap to fit the Domino's spindle. These bits would be used for the actual CNC router heads. So, it seems possible that there is something out there that could be modified easily.

Mirko