Got my birthday gift today. Finally a domino. But have question

Can you still make interior doors using the 500 with stacked tenons?

Nothing enormous (bar doors etc.), but 1 3/8" (35mm) or so think.  I wouldn't want to compromise the integrity of the door strength, but I've toyed with the idea of building doors for my house.

AIPDX said:
Domino XL is a specialized tool for "heavy lifting" in joinery.

In my opinion, Domino XL is better suited to making doors, barn-style massive furniture, etc. Domino 500 is a great choice for flooring and making smaller furniture - which I think is what you are doing.
 
Grasshopper said:
Can you still make interior doors using the 500 with stacked tenons?

Nothing enormous (bar doors etc.), but 1 3/8" (35mm) or so think.  I wouldn't want to compromise the integrity of the door strength, but I've toyed with the idea of building doors for my house.

AIPDX said:
Domino XL is a specialized tool for "heavy lifting" in joinery.

In my opinion, Domino XL is better suited to making doors, barn-style massive furniture, etc. Domino 500 is a great choice for flooring and making smaller furniture - which I think is what you are doing.

I really dont see why not. I plan on using mine to build a oak entry door for my home when I return to the States. Its really the gue that holds it together.
 
Good to know.  I was hoping that would be the case.  I think I'll be content with the 500.

Initially I had thought about getting the 700 along with the Seneca adaptor.  I think for smaller stock, plywood and the like, the 700 would be too large to finesse compared with the 500. 

Now if they could figure out how to add an adapter to give the 500 plunge capabilities of the 700, now that would be pretty slick!

jobsworth said:
Grasshopper said:
Can you still make interior doors using the 500 with stacked tenons?

Nothing enormous (bar doors etc.), but 1 3/8" (35mm) or so think.  I wouldn't want to compromise the integrity of the door strength, but I've toyed with the idea of building doors for my house.

AIPDX said:
Domino XL is a specialized tool for "heavy lifting" in joinery.

In my opinion, Domino XL is better suited to making doors, barn-style massive furniture, etc. Domino 500 is a great choice for flooring and making smaller furniture - which I think is what you are doing.

I really dont see why not. I plan on using mine to build a oak entry door for my home when I return to the States. Its really the gue that holds it together.
 
Domino tenons serve two purposes:

* they help to align the pieces together
* they increase the surface over which the pieces are held together with glue, thus making joints stronger

You can use 10 mm thick and 50 mm long tenons, the longest which DF500 can accept to make your doors. In my opinion (but perhaps more experienced people have other view on this), interior doors will be at a boundary between where you can still use DF500 and where you could benefit from the DF700 (XL). Something like 80 mm long tenons available with XL would make your doors even stronger and alignment even better. But as long as it is an interior door, I am thinking that the requirements to the strength of the joinery are not as strict. It is not exposed to moisture and it serves almost purely decorative purposes. I cannot imagine a door assembled with 50 mm long dominos falling apart. Additionally, you can use two of smaller tenons side by side instead of one big tenon.

I own a DF500, and just the other day I had a chance to "play" with a demo XL tool at a dealer. XL is quite of a monster compared with DF500, comparatively heavy and big. Even if it can be adapted to use smaller cutters, I find it hard to imagine how to use it for precise cuts on small pieces, comfortably and without fatigue. It is the same story as with Festool routers - I think most people agree that you do not want to buy they biggest router, OF2200, as "one router for all", even if you can use it with all types of bits and, in theory, for any task. Not that it is less capable, but it is just too big and heavy for most tasks. 

 
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