Domino Trim Stop tight

[ejantny]

Day before yesterday I received my Domino and accessories.

When I went to put on the Trim Stop it went on very tight. At first I was thinking it might break or I was putting it on wrong. Then I looked at the manual (again) and the pictures on bill-e's website and I was going about it the right way.

I made some mortises with it yesterday and they were dead on centered measured with a vernier.

Upon removal of the Trim Stop it came off equally as hard as going on. Anyone else experience this or is this normal.

 

[Jesse Cloud]

That was my experience, too.  I suspect it will loosen up a little with wear and tear.

 

[bill-e]

Yea, mine was tight as well but did loosen up as I used it.

 

[Les]

Good to know. Just got me yesterday. Time to go out to the playroom and play with it.

 

[Alan Turner]

A question if I could.  I received our Dominos this week, and so I have been playing a bit, mocking up potential joints and such.  Using the auxiliary guide pins, can you make multiple narrow width mortises and achieve sufficiently perfect alignment?  It seems this would be the strongest method of work with this tool.

I have not used ours yet, but did note in installing them that you need to be quite careful lest the edge of the accessory hang down below the plane of the face plate, and throw your alignment off.

Thanks for any guidance.

Alan Turner
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop

 

[bill-e]

A question if I could.  I received our Dominos this week, and so I have been playing a bit, mocking up potential joints and such.  Using the auxiliary guide pins, can you make multiple narrow width mortises and achieve sufficiently perfect alignment?  It seems this would be the strongest method of work with this tool.

I have not used ours yet, but did note in installing them that you need to be quite careful lest the edge of the accessory hang down below the plane of the face plate, and throw your alignment off.

Thanks for any guidance.

Alan Turner
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop

Alan, Multiple mortises with perfect alignment......Yes.

If you look at my review, page 3, last video, you will see a demonstration of using the cross stop (using the built in guide pins would work just the same) to position 4 mortises and I indexed off of each of the four pins.  I did that purposely to try to introduce the maximum chance of error.  I cut a total of eight exact fit mortises.  As you can see the boards lined up perfectly....and exact fit mortises are just that, pretty darn exact so any error would have caused the test to fail.