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Here's a new way to create rock-solid, loose tenon joinery.

Festool Domino

Fast, easy joinery with the

Ten seconds — that's about all the time it takes to create and assemble a solid, long-lasting joint using the Festool Domino you see below. For more information on where to purchase the Domino refer to Sources on page 51.

How it Works. If you've ever used a biscuit joiner, you'll find the overall operation of the Domino joiner to be quite similar. You create an identical mortise on both halves of the joint and then add a manufactured tenon to connect the two workpieces.

To do this, the Domino joiner cuts a perfect, accurately sized mortise by drilling and oscillating at the same time, as shown in the drawing on the opposite page. The two mortises are then connected by a loose tenon called a "Domino."

Dominoes. The shape of the Domino tenon, milled from solid beech, is similar to a game domino. The standard Domino tenon is 5x28mm (³/i6" x l'/fc") and is sized to match the mortise created by the 5mm bit that is sold with the joiner. (Dominoes are sold separately.)

There are larger bits and Dominoes available, as shown in the photo at the top of the opposite page. But you'll find that the standard size works just fine for most furniture and cabinet joints.

Metric. One of the first things you'll notice is all the gauges and adjustments are in metric measurements. While this is a little unusual, I found that after working with the tool, it was easy to make the adjustment to inches.

Adjustments. There are a number of settings on this joiner that

Locating pins can be used as reference points to position a mortise along any workpiece

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Adjustable fence features detents ■■>> ] for common angles for making < I

mortises in beveled edges

Fence can be set manually or "locked in" to the center of standard stock -thicknesses using a built-in gauge

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