Bob delivered the domino on the third. Today, had to build several cased openings with built up trim. WORKED GREAT!! The alignment of the pieces was excellent. However, I need to get accustom to working in Millimeters. What a difference from the Biscuit joiner. Realized that you have to be alittle more gentle with the domino and I have to come up with a better way to put glue on the dominos so that I don't get it all over myself. If I had one suggestion for Festool would be to put a guard over the the oscillating mechanism on the bottom and to make the two pins retractable when not needed. The domino is a incredible tool. Next purchase is the 1400 router.
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Love mine too and I'm warming up to the metric system. Got some good metric rulers, metric tape, and a metric caliper. Well, off to the lumberyard for some 19mm plywood. 
Let us know what you work out for applying glue to the dominoes/mortises. I tried cutting about half the bristles off one of those disposable brushes and it worked pretty well. Used to use my finger, but its way bigger than 5mm
Let us know what you work out for applying glue to the dominoes/mortises. I tried cutting about half the bristles off one of those disposable brushes and it worked pretty well. Used to use my finger, but its way bigger than 5mm
Jesse,
If you were a real woodworker you wouldn't cut the brush, you'd use blue tape ala David Marks
Seriously though, the way I glued my joints was to first put a light coating of glue (using a blue taped brush) inside the mortises on one side of the joints, then a very, very light coating on half of the tenon's length and insert them into the mortise. I then tapped in all the tenons with a mallet. I then put glue on the other half of mortises and the exposed half of the tenons and assembled the pieces and clamps.
At no time did glue touch my fingers nor my fingers leave my hands.
If you were a real woodworker you wouldn't cut the brush, you'd use blue tape ala David Marks
Seriously though, the way I glued my joints was to first put a light coating of glue (using a blue taped brush) inside the mortises on one side of the joints, then a very, very light coating on half of the tenon's length and insert them into the mortise. I then tapped in all the tenons with a mallet. I then put glue on the other half of mortises and the exposed half of the tenons and assembled the pieces and clamps.
At no time did glue touch my fingers nor my fingers leave my hands.
bill-e said:
Somewhere I read (I think on this forum) that if you have a really complicated glue up, since the dominos fit their mortises so tightly, it's a simple matter to break the glue-up into two separate parts -- kind of a slow-motion version of what you describe, Bill. Have you had occasion to try that?
Dave
Bill, My last post was not very clear. What I meant to say was dividing a glue up by first setting the dominos in one part, creating in effect an integral tenon, then second glue up to put the mating parts together and glue domino/tenon into the other part.
Hope that's clearer.
Dave
Hope that's clearer.
Dave
Dave,
I actually considered doing that but decided against it because I wanted the tenons to be able to move in case I had alignment problems during the glue up. Even though I always dry fit it seems that I still need to occasionally "persuade" a joint or two.
In my previous post I explain my process and I essentially do what you describe only I don't let the glue dry before mating the parts.
I actually considered doing that but decided against it because I wanted the tenons to be able to move in case I had alignment problems during the glue up. Even though I always dry fit it seems that I still need to occasionally "persuade" a joint or two.
In my previous post I explain my process and I essentially do what you describe only I don't let the glue dry before mating the parts.
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