Domino to drill dowels?

[Dave Ronyak]

I think it'd be cool if they made accessory clamps for the hole drilling jig, that would allow the rail to be mounted at 90 degrees to an edge, for just this sort of thing. Evenly spaced dowel joints for large surfaces, cut with a router.

I think it is possible to make a jig to drill a line of dowel holes do as you posited.  It should also be possible to do the same operation by setting up the LR 32 on the top of an MFT and the workpiece clamped to the side rail of the MFT, so the router shaft and thus the boring axis is slightly outside of the side rail of the MFT.  To assist in lengthwise alignment of the components and the dowel holes to be drilled in them using the LR 32 Hole Drilling Set, it might be helpful to use a stop such as DeWalt's T-Square accessory

to abut the ends of the workpieces to.

Dave R.

 

[Vindingo]

Dave,  

Do you feel that the DeWalt angle stop works better than the Festool angle guide?  I recently purchased the Festool angle guide and find it difficult to use with a long guide rail.  

 

[Dave Ronyak]

Vindingo,

I can't give you a full reply because I do not own nor have I used a Festool angle guide.  In my work, I don't need the angular variability of Festool's angle guide.  I view the DeWalt attachment as useful for many cuts but not with a long Guide Rail to cross cut a wide panel or sheet goods with certain accuracy because the reference bearing length is too short.  If I want to be certain that my cross cut of a wide panel is at 90 degrees, I will use my Woodpecker precision carpenter's triangle/MFT to mark it before setting up the Guide Rail for the cut.  If I need to make several repeat cuts, I will use my

  shop made stops.  The dowel rods are 3 ft long.

Dave R.

 

[riha]

Take an look at the Mafell DD40, that is how it should be done.

http://www.mafell.com/produkte/prod_bohren_dd40_i.htm

I really like to have one, but it is quite expensive (aod so would of course an similar festool be as well).