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Thread: Deciding on a Domino
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25th April 2021, 09:44 PM #31
I have owned two 500 dominoes and thought them both fine machines, but I drifted out of woodworking so sold the first one, then drifted back, then later traded up to the 700. Seneca woodworking also make an adapter to use the smaller cutters on the 700 which extends its range down into the small joinery jobs. I really prefer the 700, but then I have been doing mostly architectural scale work with mine since I got it. At one time I owned a lamello biscuit joiner too, but don’t miss it.
I have used it so much my 12mm cutter now looks like it’s chrome plated...all of the black oxide has been removed after 3000 or so plunges into western red cedar.
After 25 Georgian doors, three garage doors and 30 shutters and dozens of window and door casings the machine is still tight and accurate. Its so good thatI doubt that I will ever use my dedicated mortice attachment on my combo machine. Taking the tool to the work makes so much more sense.
While I used festool genuine dominoes almost exclusively, I want to try cutting a wider mortice using multiple plunges, then making a custom domino to suit for certain applications. I am having some moulder cutters made up, might ask them about a special able to cut any of the larger dominos.It's all part of the service here at The House of Pain™
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26th April 2021, 09:23 AM #32SENIOR MEMBER
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26th April 2021, 01:52 PM #33
I got caught out one weekend - ran ou of dominos - so I made my own. Just ripped and thicknessed some timber strips to size, rounded the edges with a bullnose bit on the router table, and then cut to length. Very quick and easy if you tape the strips together and thus cut off six dominos at a time.
There was a debate about this on another forum quite some time ago - possibly FOG - involving some very technical engineering type analysis. It seems that multiple "regular" dominos may actually be stronger than a single elongated custom one. Certainly easier.
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26th April 2021, 04:02 PM #34
Yes, it certainly is easier to do multiples. I was thinking about an upcoming gate project that with conventional joinery would have stout pegged tenons. On my internal doors I just bit the bullet and used about $25 in dominoes for each one. They are fine so far.
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9th November 2021, 09:49 PM #35Senior Member
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I have had the smaller one for a few years now. It is a great tool but hardly use it. I’m seriously considering selling it and a large number of dominoes to fund other tool purchases that I will use.
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A few years ago, we had a job making some enormous doors for a horse racing stable, from merbau. The old man wanted to do double mortise and tenon joints but I suggested a double row of dominoes, the largest ones. So we made up a sample joint out of 190 x 45 and glued it with two rows of four dominoes with epoxy. The timbers were about 1 metre long. We took this sample to an engineering place in Newcastle and they put it in a press to try and break the joint, it needed almost EIGHT TONNES Of pressure before failing. Nothing wrong with domino joints.
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10th November 2021, 12:11 PM #37
What failed, RB - the timber, the glue or the dominos?
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i posted this in another thread (about dodgy knock off scam sites) but you can look at this instead of the domino
Tianli Handheld Mortiser Domino Jig Router Mortise Jig for Makita trim router | eBay
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10th November 2021, 01:12 PM #39GOLD MEMBER
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10th November 2021, 01:50 PM #40
This reminds me of how FANTASTICALLY strong timber is.
Imagine one of those titanic gums - the weight in those branches must be unreal.
All of that must withstand the torments of wind, storm and pelting rain.
Its mind boggling.
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