Using Domino Spacers with Narrow Material: paper revised (finally!)

[Cary Swoveland]

Last September I invited comments on a draft paper concerning the use of spacers with the Domino, when cutting mortises in narrow material (http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1609.msg42728#msg42728).  I finally got around to revising that paper.  It's in the FOG gallery,  here:
http://www.festoolownersgroup.com/C...Using_Domino_Spacers_with_Narrow_Material.pdf

The spacers now look like this:

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My thanks to all who commented on the draft paper.

Cary

 

[CharlesWilson]

Your timing is perfect, Cary. I bought the plastic stock, and the magnets, and just completed the last of my pending projects, so I will be making these real soon now. I will let you know how they turn out.

Charles

 

[Per Swenson]

Cary,

Thank you so much for putting in all the time and effort on this.

Per

 

[CharlesWilson]

Cary,

I made a couple of sets of those spacers last night, and then I remembered another one of your Domino gems (the cradle) which I will be putting together today:
http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1778.0

 

[Cary Swoveland]

Cary,

I made a couple of sets of those spacers last night, and then I remembered another one of your Domino gems (the cradle) which I will be putting together today:
http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1778.0

Charles,

I'd appreciate your thoughts after you've had a chance to use the spacers.  Recall that my advice for which spacer to use in a particular situation is contained in three tables in my paper.  For convenience, I've attached a Word file that contains those three tables on one page, should you want to print it out and put it in your Domino systainer.

Cary

 

[Cary Swoveland]

Charles,

I just noticed that my Mark II spacers, with the rabbet on the end with the hole, can't be postioned in the normal way when using Domino's "support bracket" (bottom right in pic below).  They can still be used, however, by turning them around, so that the rabbet faces out.  Did you make yours with the rabbet?

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Cary

 

[Madtown Rob]

Thanks for the hard work you have put into this great resource.  I was banging my head on technique trying to get repeatable plunges in the end of narrow pieces.  I think that after I get a set of these made, my problems will be behind me...

Thanks again - Rob