Mafell Doweler

[Birdhunter]

I was tasked with building a tea table for a friends. I’ve made two of these some time ago. The design specs from my wife was that the table had to look delicate. The top had to be 8” by 16”. The stretchers were 2” high. The legs were 16” high.

The previous tables were joined using my Domino. With only 2” to work with. I used just one tenon for each joint. I did have a problem with one set of joint coming unstuck. I think the cleaning ladies probably banged the table with the vacuum cleaner.

This time I pulled out the Mafell dowel machine. I had to play with it a bit before I got the correct dowel spacing. I ended up with 2 40mm by 8mm dowels in each joint. Perfect alignment

I used my new Woodpeckers taper jig to double taper each leg.

Now comes the sanding and finishing.

 

[Tom the Remodeler]

Very nice!

As others have stated, I think it's a bit of a false premise when people ask "should I buy X, Y or Z"? I currently have a DD-40P, Domino 700, and the Lamello Zeta, and get plenty of use out of each of them.

To supplement the DD-40P, I did pick up the Jessem Dowelling jig (with each of the Metric bushing kits) to supplement the DD-40P and found it a great complement:https://jessem.com/products/8mm-dowelling-jig-with-main-body-and-mounting-angle-model-08370

My most recent supplementary joinery tool is a Felder FD-250 horizontal mortiser:https://www.felder-group.com/en-us/...chines-c1959/horizontal-mortiser-fd-250-p3016 This stationary machine can produce either Domino mortises or dowel joinery, and has come in really handy with smaller pieces that were tricky to safely/accurately index with the hand-held tools.