How-To
Get Perfect Reveals with a Domino
Anissa Kapsales takes the Domino to another level by using shims to offset parts consistently and create interesting reveals.
In this video, associate editor Anissa Kapsales takes the Domino to another level by using shims to offset parts consistently and create interesting reveals. This seemingly obvious tip came from Libby Schrum’s incredible Mid-Century Credenza article in issue #260.
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Comments
Should always wear safety glasses with rotating power equipment.
Very good tip. Very helpful. Thanks for sharing it.
I love my Festool Domino and I really appreciate seeing how others use it to achieve different results. I hope that Fine Woodworking features more demonstrations of the various Festool products! Thanks!
Here are tips on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Festool+Domino+tips
Great tip. Thanks for sharing. Michael is correct. Always were safety glasses and don't forget the hearing protection.
A couple extra tips:
A few pieces of plexiglass as commonly used spacers works for me. It comes in 1/16" increment thickness from Tap plastics and other suppliers. A scribed centerline on them helps with registration on your pencil mark.
The safety police is here again... While I can understand hearing protection to a certain level, using a power tool for 2 minutes has negligible impact. But safety glasses? While it is a good habit to always have the glasses on, there is no way anything can come close to your face when using the domino: all the dust and chips are sucked by the extractor.
It's easier to just always wear them. If you're evaluating whether or not to put them every time, you're much more likely to forget. If I'm doing work, my specs are on; I literally feel their absence at this point. Just my take.
Always love getting more Festool tips. I've been using my Domino 500 for many years on almost every project with joints and it gets almost as much use as my table saw. Well done video and like the commentary and music too! I agree with Alain, the safety police are getting a bit like the mask police. The Domino cutter is either enclosed in the machine, or in the wood and buried. You may as well wear a football helmet in the shop.
Thanks Anissa!
I guess if you are a professional the cost of the domino could be justified. I would use my morticer, or my router, or my Woodrat, or my biscuit jointer. I rarely use loose tenons. A good doweling jig would also work for £60 instead of £850. Morticer £850. Router £85 Woodrat £475ish. Biscuit jointer £80
If I was starting off and hadn’t won the lottery I would go for a decent doweling jig if I didn’t already own a router.
I could never afford a Domino, but like the comment above, I could do the same with my biscuit cutter.
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