Slanted dominos with df500

[DanielD]

Hello.

I am making a bedside table for a family member based on their chosen design. See picture

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I will be swapping the drawer box for another shelf so it will have two shelves.

To attach the shelf to the sloped rail I will be using dominos. This is my first project with a domino!

I am struggling to work out how to position the domino mortise so it is slanted and is therefore parallel to the edge contacting the floor. The rail is aproximately 50x30mm. See diagram hopefully explaining this better!

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I have tried researching this online and can't find anyone encountering a similiar challenge. The only possible solution I can think of is placing a wedge (possibly the offcut) in between the rail and the trim stop.

Would this work? And of course I will mill up some scrap 2x4's for some practice attempts.

I have a domino with the q set so have the trim stop etc...

Thanks,

Daniel

 

[jeffinsgf]

I would build a jig in which I could clamp the risers and align the Domino at the correct angle.

 

[Hawkeye0001]

The offcuts you'll produce at the top and bottom of the slanted rail will make for a precise right angle reference if you mount them upside down along the legs (in the vicinity where you wanna place your domino). Attach them together with a piece of offcut as a fence and butt your Domino fence against it.
(If your offcut is too small use a piece of ply or MDF cut at the same angle)

 

[woodferret]

Note the distance from the bottom of the DF500 to the center of the drill bit is 10mm.  If you look up mid-panel domino, you'll see how to reference off the bottom of the DF500.  Just double side tape a piece of wood as a fence so that you can nest the DF500 against it vertically.  The plate has a registration mark for the center so be sure to extend center on your scrap for side-side alignment.

Most of the examples for mid-panel DF500 are mid-shelves perpendicular to the front edge of the cabinet.  No one said you need to actually have it perpendicular (as in your case).

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Note the distance from the bottom of the DF500 to the center of the drill bit is 10mm.  If you look up mid-panel domino, you'll see how to reference off the bottom of the DF500.  Just double side tape a piece of wood as a fence so that you can nest the DF500 against it vertically.  The plate has a registration mark for the center so be sure to extend center on your scrap for side-side alignment.

Most of the examples for mid-panel DF500 are mid-shelves perpendicular to the front edge of the cabinet.  No one said you need to actually have it perpendicular (as in your case).

Exactly. The whole point is keeping your reference edges in mind and using the 10mm off-set of the base in your calculations (or built into your jig)

[member=81661]DanielD[/member] I would be cautious about that one in the upper pic. That shelf is too thin and the rail is too narrow at the same time. There just isn't enough contact area to support any weight on that shelf.
The drawer box is fine, you can separate the Dominos enough make it stable.

 

[ChuckM]

The offcuts you'll produce at the top and bottom of the slanted rail will make for a precise right angle reference if you mount them upside down along the legs (in the vicinity where you wanna place your domino). Attach them together with a piece of offcut as a fence and butt your Domino fence against it.
(If your offcut is too small use a piece of ply or MDF cut at the same angle)

Hope it's not too late to the party (Was away for a month over in Aus/NZ -- NZ has many awesome forests! Click to see.)

This was more or less the same approach I used for building a whole lot of ladder shelves of different sizes (more than two dozen in total):

The Jig (which has two fences, one for the opposite/mirror rail):
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The Finished Samples:
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[ChuckM]

[member=81661]DanielD[/member] I would be cautious about that one in the upper pic. That shelf is too thin and the rail is too narrow at the same time. There just isn't enough contact area to support any weight on that shelf.
The drawer box is fine, you can separate the Dominos enough make it stable.

To address this legitimate concern, I'd reinforce the single shelf with either blocks or strips glued to it so I could use two dominoes on each side to support the shelf.

 

[smorgasbord]

The upper pic photo makes it look like there's a bar running underneath the full length of the shelves and drawer box.