Thread: Making Loose Tenon Stock - Domino

Correction - I meant 10mm diameter.

Gday Mat, don't have the specific answer to your rounding over router bit q. , but I have seen loose tenon or domino stock homemade in volume from (a) stock just thicknessed & ripped to width (ie. a rectangular section with sharp corners); or (b) same but ripped wider then the corners chamfered off with a 45 degree bit (obviously fit the mortices better than (a) )

HTH..............cheers.................Sean

Lignum has previously posted somewhere that you don't need to round the edge. Bevel the edges at 45 degrees, the excess glue goes into the chamfer.

Making your own tenons is a great way to reduce your offcut wastage.

Hi Mat,

Lignum's method will actually give you a more robust joint as there is more chance of getting glue on to the surfaces that count. There is some evidence accumulating now that suggests that the Festool dominoes may be a little tight. But I wouldn't want to be quoted on that.
For detailing (visible) and for invisible mending tenons, I use a Dremel rotary tool with a round over bit, on the small router table Dremel make. I'm not sure of the curve, but they fit very well.

Regards,

Rob