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jeffinsgf said:I didn't go into this in the product release copy, because I didn't want to scramble the message, but in an upcoming Deep Dive I'm going to make tenons to fit the mid and wide settings.
Great idea Jeff...
jeffinsgf said:I didn't go into this in the product release copy, because I didn't want to scramble the message, but in an upcoming Deep Dive I'm going to make tenons to fit the mid and wide settings.
smorgasbord said:Would be nice to support DF700 owners doing larger scale work with 12mm or 14mm tenons.
jeffinsgf said:smorgasbord said:Would be nice to support DF700 owners doing larger scale work with 12mm or 14mm tenons.
Check your inbox on March 19. To be honest, you could just go to our web site on Friday, 3/16...the page should be live by then.
thudchkr said:Come on now Jeff. Will it be on Friday? Or on 3/16? [attachimg=1]
jeffinsgf said:With the goal of making attractive exposed Domino tenon joints, we're launching Metric Half-Round Bits in 4,5,6,8 and 10mm diameters. They don't officially launch until tomorrow, but I thought some of you guys might like a chance to get to the head of the line. Shipping will be pretty quick...they were working on the production set-up today.
jeffinsgf said:Mike,
You have a lot of control in a lot of different ways. If you're going for an exposed through end you can mill the thickness and width to be a very snug fit, then use a hand scraper or block plane to shave a little off all but the last half inch or so. You can take a carving tool and make a few small grooves along the length from a half inch back to the internal end. When I did my coffee table with padauk slat shelf and padauk through floating tenons, I did both scraping and grooving. And of course, if you're using the bits to make larger tenons that will be blind, you can always make them a tiny bit thinner and a tiny bit narrower.
Mike Goetzke said:Thanks Jeff - getting ready to male a second crib. Years ago on the first one for the vertical slats I put loose tenons in the end of the slats. With these new bits was thinking of making the wider slats themselves the tenons.
jeffinsgf said:Mike Goetzke said:Thanks Jeff - getting ready to male a second crib. Years ago on the first one for the vertical slats I put loose tenons in the end of the slats. With these new bits was thinking of making the wider slats themselves the tenons.
I did something similar using our Morty Jig. Made a baker's cooling rack with tenon stock straight through mortises in the rails.
Without a shoulder, you need a really accurate fit, but that's nothing more than paying attention and working with properly tuned equipment and keen cutting tools.