Thread: domino box

and not a Festool in sight

Here is an idea. Some fine mitre work but could be done. Only 2 layers high. I think 2 boxes one fitting inside the other one as lid one as base.
Regards
Billy

Thats looks a fine idea Billyboydes.

I started preparing some timber, an offcut of Sycamore but it does have a flaw buried in the block (some spelting) so the timber might be ditched.



So I planed and thicknessed up all surfaces and then put in the bandsaw (I had to change the blade after 12 months use, like parting with an old friend, but the underneath cut was angled and I couldn't correct the problem).
Then I made myself a sled with the intention of getting the timber down to a 5mm thickness.



BTW, the lazy susan is been worked on at the same time but delays occur whilst glue sets at each lid.

Perhaps its the quality of the timber but it did not come out very clean but not a disaster because I can cut out the pieces I need for a box and ditch the rough bits.



I then decided to use the sled again after cutting the lengths to a 35mm width on my new tablesaw. This time to obtain perfect widths of around 33mm. I have used some masking tape to hold the four piece together making a 20mm width which the thicknesser can accept.


So that is another technique that I shall remember for future use when working down to 5mm.

If interested I will keep the thread going.

Put my new tablesaw to work today and cut all pieces shown accept the last cut to reduce ends to 42mm. I haven't got the confidence to hold a piece that small on the mitrte gauge for a cross cut (used an 80 tooth Perform blade that came gratis on a previous purchase from Axminster.

So next job is to make a table saw sled.

Did a dry trial run for part of the domino box as per pic





so glued the 5 pieces with a layer of dominoes in situ.( I hope they come out)

Hello jow104,

Originally Posted by jow104

so glued the 5 pieces with a layer of dominoes in situ.( I hope they come out)

I do very often very similar kind of in-situ fittings. Those make often much better and more accurate results than using only measurement tools. I must say I have very advanced and expensive measuring equipment, mainly machinist's measurement tools by Mitutoyo. I can also use them, which is not self-evident although one would claim an ownership of such tools. Measuring things can be quite demanding task.

A few years ago I had to make a "speed slope" for my son's matchbox cars. I took the widest one, used it as a measure between tablesaw fence and one blade bit, ripped a piece of plywood and added sides. Very nice and fast slope for cars, indeed .

sumu

Rats I thought you were going to make a box using the dominos as the sides, not a box to hold the dominos


Cheers
Wendy

Went to my scrapbox again today



selected the thick rectangular piece and put it to the bandsaw:




And got a nice book match. Unfortunately the wood is pretty wild and I lost one of the halves trying to thickness it down to 5mm.



Got one half left though.

In the meantime I thought I would be really brave and put the first box through the thicknesser upsidedown to reduce the thickness of the base because it was around 6mm and a bit rough on its face surface.

So its down to 4mm and still in one piece.



So perhaps in the future I will have lids with 3mm thicknesses!

BTW the next piece of replacement timber for the lost piece (bookmatch) I also lost including the sled, something happened and it smashed itself in the tunnel

So rebuilding a replacement sled at the moment.

Hello,

So you drived the complete box through the thicknesser? Must have been exciting . Good result!

Sad about the lost piece. I remember when I lost a fist size piece of vavona. I had prepared it like one of those routed ones, and I was finishing it when it started to feel funny in my hand. I just watched in awe when a crack advanced through the entire box side and opened like some clam, at least 3mm crack width at max, length almost 6 centimeters. Just like that, without warning.

I later on read that vavona burl might has tendency to behave like that. Some residual stresses combined with close adjacent and high density differences, or something.

sumu

Fun little project and thanks for all the photos!

Corey

Thanks Corey, must get back to the box and get the lid made.
Retired and not a moment to spare is the problem.

Made the lid for the domino box yesterday evening and finished off today.
First picture shows the box before planing down and a bit taken off running through the table saw using the blade supplied by Axminster. Not a bad cut, the box not needing any clean up on edges apart from rubbing with a sanding block.


A top down view of the box with a view of the spalted Sycamore.





A side view .




And an inside view of the lid.




I also put the box through the thicknesser again 4 or 5 times with the dominoes in place and the lid on, This was done to all surfaces and the timber is down to around 3.5mm. All joints are straight butt, end grain to sides using Titebond 3. I will keep the forum informed if any joints fail over the distant future.
I will most probably give it a coat of shellac and wax.


Now a word of warning, if you play dominoes and your opponent keeps winning be aware that this commercial domino set (high quality) has a number of bits that have to be forced into the box.
The double six and the five/three. They are very slightly oversized and I have know doubt a professional gambler (thinking the River boat gamblers in the cowboy films) would be experienced enough to detect a very slightly oversized piece like they do with playing cards.
So my old grandma was right, she said never gamble with strangers.

Nice looking box, good job!

Must admit this is the first time I looked at your thread as I thought (by the title) that it should be in the Festool forum (yawn!)

However, curiosity got the better of me and I was in for a pleasant surprise