making your own domino's

[Caly]

does any out there make there own domino's especially for the Domino XL DF 700..............what methods do you use and best timber for external use i.e. in doors.
cheers.

 

[NiteWalkerGR]

Not much different from making regular loose tenons; plane to thickness, rip to width, round edges, which is the tricky part. I used to make a ton of 1/4" loose tenons, so I'd just use a 1/8" roundover bit.
The rounded edges are less of an issue if you use the domino's wider mortise setting for both parts of the joint.

 

[Birdhunter]

I'm making a bunch of outdoor benches out of Ipe. I bought the Festool 8mm Sipo stock and cut tenons to length. Very inexpensive compared to buying precut tenons.

I chamfered the ends but that's probably not necessary. I can't imagine making the tenons from scratch makes sense from a time/money viewpoint.