Thread: New member of the Domino club!

Probably to late Pat We (the Brotherhood) have no doubt let one of our newest members down when he was calling for help in one of his darkest Domi hours. I hope alls not lost and he can drag himself out of the sawdust and live to be a equidistantly better Dominatrixer for it

Probably to late Pat We (the Brotherhood) have no doubt let one of our newest members down when he was calling for help in one of his darkest Domi hours. I hope alls not lost and he can drag himself out of the sawdust and live to be a equidistantly better Dominatrixer for it

Donner und Blitzen

As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when they were up to their arses in Apaches, "whose this We Paleface?"

Steve
if you are still alive and haven't committed Domikari give method 3 a go. If not try Method 4 which is half a bottle of Laphroig.

A CHICK:eek: !! Me! I just ordered a Domino, nothing like breaking into the Festool market with a versatile tool like this one. How exciting! I get it next week and if Tom's lucky, I might even share it with him. Lignum, it'll go on my bedside table, not Tom's.

Wahoo.

Cheers
Dan

Welcome to the DAC Dan!

Hang on a mo. Am I dreaming? Did you say you were a girl? :eek:

If so take your Domino back to that nice Festool man and exchange it for girly things like ribbons and dollys and the like. I have never heard anything like it. Next you will post that you are able to vote and walk alongside Tom during daylight hours.

Congratulations on ordering what is quite possibly the finest tool ever designed. Mind you, yours will have to be called Dom.

Kind regards
Pat and his trusty mate Simou

Originally Posted by patr

Donner und Blitzen

As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when they were up to their arses in Apaches, "whose this We Paleface?"

Steve
if you are still alive and haven't committed Domikari give method 3 a go. If not try Method 4 which is half a bottle of Laphroig.

No worries - problem resolved. I just made a jig that Domi runs across. The jig has a transverse leg that is adjustable in length and hooks onto the outer edge of the panel to ensuring parallelism with the edge of the board, then another notch for the second row

Originally Posted by dan_tom

A CHICK:eek: !! Me! I just ordered a Domino, nothing like breaking into the Festool market with a versatile tool like this one. How exciting! I get it next week and if Tom's lucky, I might even share it with him. Lignum, it'll go on my bedside table, not Tom's.

Wahoo.

Cheers
Dan

Woohoooo Dan welcome to the Brother `n Sisterhood And i bet it will make a beautiful addition to your Bedside table. Word of caution, just remember to have all the paper work in order just incase the unthinkable happens and sometime down the track their is a custody dispute. Tom can have the house but you get Domi

Not a member yet but can I bet a guest?

Hi all,

Does Dan's conversion mean we really do have a dominatrix now?

Oh and Wongo, like to watch do we??

Regards,

Rob

Had a play with the Festo Domi stop accessories today.

I used the index pins on the trim stop to cut a series on mortices on the edges of 4 boards for edge jointing. One index mark across the four boards and that was it for measuring or marking! Brilliant!

Did they line up? Is Festool German? Do bears go poo in the woods? Naturellment!

One 1800mm x 500mm x 22mm top panel jointed (machine jointed then hand planed of course) and glued up in < 3 hrs. Flat as, and perfect joins.

BTW I used my old (pre WWII) Stanley #8C (with LN blade and chip cutter) for the first couple of passes on the edges after the machine, then a LV #7 with fence to ensure perfect squareness, and finally an LN Bronze #4 smoother, just because I wanted to , and to get rid of any small tearout).

This Blackwood (or Silver Maple?) is HUGELY prone to tear-out. It's driving me nuts! It's not that the blades are dull; not hardly!

One small issue though: the Dominoes between the boards (200mm spacing) required some SIGNIFICANT clamping to close up the joint. I noticed that even with strong hand pressure some Dominoes would press home fairly readily, whilst others needed a good whack with a mallet.

Any ideas on why that might be? They were lined up properly.

I also noticed that without D/C the poor lass was gasping for breath after the first couple of cuts. Cleaned her up, and attached the shop vac and all was well.

Going to need another bag of 10x50s soon!

Hi Steve,

I've also noticed an increase in tightness of fit and the need for increased clamping pressure on a small RG table top I'm making. They fit, but with effort. I suspect change in humidity with the pre and intra rainy period over the last 3 days. This phenomenon may not affect everyone in Melbourne, depending on each Workshop setup and conditions.

Regards,

Rob

Grab some muslin cloth (or an old hankie) and put a heap of sea-salt in and tie it up and pop it in with your dominos (in a sealed container) that will stop moisture penatrating. Also good for biscuits

Thanks for that mates!

I wondered if it was the humidty as I noticed that the shop hygrometer was up at around 75%b this afternoon - and the European Beech from which the Dominoes are made are suceptible to moisture absorbtion.

I guess Herr Festool hasn't yet figured out a way to overcome nature... :eek:

Hi people,

Steve, I'm not sure it's overcoming nature that is the problem. The percent hydration in the dominos ( and biscuits) for that matter is critical to their success in creating a tight joint. You could only go for a range when dealing with a world market. Lignum's answer will do the trick. The only thing I'd like to see is Silica gel in the containers when they ship the dominos. It's cheap stuff and can be reused. ( Not as cheap as salt though!)

Regards,

Rob

Just a brief update.

This afternoon when I got back home, I cut off the excess lengths on the top for the buffet, and found that in doing so that I'd also removed the outer-most set of Dominoes on one end. (the boards were deliberately not board end aligned, but rather grain aligned, thus leaving a board-in, board-out, etc effect on both ends.

Curious as to why they Domis were so hard to press home, I took a cut-off and resawed it in half on the bandsaw, going through the Domis. The mortices were trapezoidal in shape :eek: tapering inwards towards the bottoms :eek: :eek: See pic. Note also that ALL of the glue had been squeezed out resulting in a dry joint...

Domi was set to cut 10 x 50 mortices, and ususally the cuts have parallel sides, but not this time!

I'm wondering if I have a problem here? Love to hear if anyone else has a similar issue or ideas on what the cause might be...