Trying to get a small cabinet finished up that I've working on for FAR to long...
I had decided I wanted to attach the top (since it's Bamboo ply and I don't have to worry about expansion) using through dominos. But when I went to make the cuts, I realized that the Domino 500 wouldn't cut almost the entire length of a 10mm domino.
Of course, the simple solution would be to get the DF 700. But that's not in the budget and although I came up with a way to get one for 30 days use, that didn't seem like fair thing to do... [wink]
So I decided to see if I could re-register a fence for a second plunge with the top removed. I was doubtful this would work but it actually did quite well, so that's what I went ahead and did. Came out perfect. Below are pictures with comments:
Here's the top clamped in position with a fence for registering the domino vertically. I was able to get about 3mm depth cut into the underlying leg to tell me where the next plunge needed be:
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All four dominos plunged through the top:
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Here's the fun part. I made a jig (of course!) to give myself a stable platform to position the domino.
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Now, all I need to do is locate the fence the right distance. For distance, I just inserted a domino into the shallow cut from the previous plunge, and squared it with an engineers square. Then I used a 5mm domino as a spacer to locate the fence exactly 5mm off or 10mm to the center of the plunge. For side to side, I carefully marked the center of a domino on both sides, which allowed me to transfer a line to the piece. Then I simply centered the fence on that line, and registered the domino tool on that line for the plunge.
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Here's all four of the corners with full depth domino insertion. They'll be cut off and I'll use Gorilla poly glue to make sure any gaps are filled well.
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I had decided I wanted to attach the top (since it's Bamboo ply and I don't have to worry about expansion) using through dominos. But when I went to make the cuts, I realized that the Domino 500 wouldn't cut almost the entire length of a 10mm domino.
Of course, the simple solution would be to get the DF 700. But that's not in the budget and although I came up with a way to get one for 30 days use, that didn't seem like fair thing to do... [wink]
So I decided to see if I could re-register a fence for a second plunge with the top removed. I was doubtful this would work but it actually did quite well, so that's what I went ahead and did. Came out perfect. Below are pictures with comments:
Here's the top clamped in position with a fence for registering the domino vertically. I was able to get about 3mm depth cut into the underlying leg to tell me where the next plunge needed be:
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All four dominos plunged through the top:
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Here's the fun part. I made a jig (of course!) to give myself a stable platform to position the domino.
[attachthumb=#]
Now, all I need to do is locate the fence the right distance. For distance, I just inserted a domino into the shallow cut from the previous plunge, and squared it with an engineers square. Then I used a 5mm domino as a spacer to locate the fence exactly 5mm off or 10mm to the center of the plunge. For side to side, I carefully marked the center of a domino on both sides, which allowed me to transfer a line to the piece. Then I simply centered the fence on that line, and registered the domino tool on that line for the plunge.
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Here's all four of the corners with full depth domino insertion. They'll be cut off and I'll use Gorilla poly glue to make sure any gaps are filled well.
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