Easy Domino enhancement for miter joint

[bbeaulant]

What thickness is your shim or does the actual thickness not really matter?

Does not matter.

Right. But mine is 10mm. And I this it's a good choice.

 

[bbeaulant]

Translation?...The single photo says it all.

Exactly Thank you Michael !

 

[Dick Mahany]

[member=36505]Boris Beaulant[/member] I meant to comment on your clever set up of your bandsaw in your video.  That looks like a great machine and is right at hand.  Have you ever considered guards for it?

 

[Bohdan]

Maybe we can have one of our English speaking cohorts make an English version of the video so it's easier for people to reference in the future.

It's a very practical method to keep the domino stable for angled joints.

Switch on the subtitles and select "English" in the auto translate menu.

 

[bbeaulant]

Have you ever considered guards for it?

Yes, but not done at this moment. Not enough time to complete the workshop configuration ;(

 

[Jim Metzger]

I like the idea very much. How do you set the Domino on the alignment marks on the work piece? The cursor is obscured by the miter block.

 

[Dick Mahany]

Switch on the subtitles and select "English" in the auto translate menu.

[member=36526]Bohdan[/member] thank you for this information. I never knew such tools existed and I often watch European language Woodworking videos on YouTube.  This will be a great help. Very cool.

 

[ChuckM]

What thickness is your shim or does the actual thickness not really matter?

Does not matter.

Right. But mine is 10mm. And I this it's a good choice.

Your angled shim is indeed a clever way of offering support to the DF. But I would use a much thicker beveled shim to give even more support on the back side of the stock. On the "to-try-out" list.

 

[Michael Kellough]

I like the idea very much. How do you set the Domino on the alignment marks on the work piece? The cursor is obscured by the miter block.

That’s a good question. Since there is no cutout window in his piece he must be registering from the sides of the fence or base or simply using the flip out paddles.

 

[Svar]

I like the idea very much. How do you set the Domino on the alignment marks on the work piece? The cursor is obscured by the miter block.

That’s a good question. Since there is no cutout window in his piece he must be registering from the sides of the fence or base or simply using the flip out paddles.

A small notch in the shim will solve the problem. A "deluxe" version could be made of Plexiglas.
BTW. The shim does not have to be beveled at 45. One could use rectangular shim and set the fence at 45 instead of 90.

 

[bbeaulant]

No problem for viewing the alignment mark. You just need to draw the mark inside.

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[ChuckM]

BTW. The shim does not have to be beveled at 45. One could use rectangular shim and set the fence at 45 instead of 90.

Good point. The shim would be easier to make in whatever thickness desired.

 

[bbeaulant]

BTW. The shim does not have to be beveled at 45. One could use rectangular shim and set the fence at 45 instead of 90.

Good and bad. In this case the handle wouldn't have the same position and the ruler couldn't be used at it's exact value.
But maybe it's not a problem.

 

[greg mann]

It must be me....

But someone please enlighten me why this is preferred to using the fence at a 45 angle and referencing from the "inside" of the mitre?
This works for me every time without any issues....

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Your method registers to the obtuse angle, or inside of the miter. The OP’s method registers to the acute angle, or outside of the miter. One may be preferable over the other based on differing circumstances.

 

[TealaG]

The explanation from the video on why this is preferred is because he said that you generally want the point to match and if it's not exactly matched on the inside of the joint, it may not matter as much.  Best I could understand, he was using an example of a 41" angle and how even then, his "truc" (device?) would make it work out well because the 45 deg angle was measuring from the flat edge. 

I'll tell you, the auto translate really butchered many of the words in French (if I can understand better than google, you know it butchered it).  Then, it took the bad transcription in French and translated that to English and it was really bad (maybe with the visual portion you could figure it out).  There are many videos in other languages that I'd like to watch and the translator will help lots, but it may also be quite entertaining to see how the computer translates.  I'm not giving up on my German and Japanese lessons!