Picking up on an old thread, this may help some of you avoid hours of anxiety and rage as you wrestle carcasses together as the glue is rapidly drying.
My preferred corner joint for sheet goods like Birch ply, is a mitre.
But they are a nightmare to assemble and glue accurately and using dominoes (or biscuits) in the conventional way, requires six hands and large numbers of sash cramps.
By placing the dominoes vertically as suggested by an earlier contributor, the assembly becomes straightforward and fast.
As long as the mitres are accurate it is simply a matter of dropping the top panel onto the dominos which act as locating pins.
The critical requirement is that sheet material must be exactly the same thickness as the slightest variation will result in a misaligned joint so try not to mix different sheets.
I thought of this method a while ago but dismissed it unworkable but reading the earlier thread I thought I would give it a try and am glad I did.
My preferred corner joint for sheet goods like Birch ply, is a mitre.
But they are a nightmare to assemble and glue accurately and using dominoes (or biscuits) in the conventional way, requires six hands and large numbers of sash cramps.
By placing the dominoes vertically as suggested by an earlier contributor, the assembly becomes straightforward and fast.
As long as the mitres are accurate it is simply a matter of dropping the top panel onto the dominos which act as locating pins.
The critical requirement is that sheet material must be exactly the same thickness as the slightest variation will result in a misaligned joint so try not to mix different sheets.
I thought of this method a while ago but dismissed it unworkable but reading the earlier thread I thought I would give it a try and am glad I did.
