

Latest from brands Festool DF 500 Q-Plus GB Domino Joining Machine, 240 V 20 £94995 Get it Friday, Dec 9 - Saturday, Dec 10 FREE Delivery Only 1 left in stock. It uses the same cutter design as the original Domino, yet uses much larger tenons.

And you can certainly use it in many situations where a Domino is the preferred (but far more expensive) option. The DOMINO joiner, with its revolutionary cutting method, simple indexing features and adjustable mortise sizing, makes flawless mortises every single time. Festool Joining Machine DF 500 Q-Set 240V Domino 576422 £88000 Get it Thursday, Dec 8 - Saturday, Dec 10 Only 10 left in stock. Domino XL edit The Domino XL is, as the name implies, the Dominos larger cousin. I certainly wouldn't use it in situations where only 1-2 dowels can fit and wouldn't use it in high stress situations like joining chair pieces, but for wider rail/stile applications like simple frames I wouldn't be worried about failures. And once you have a Domino, other uses starts to pop up everywhere. I use it for butt joints, because Im anal, clumsy and over build my boxes. The Domino XL DF 700 is a market leading product for joinery.

The DOMINO XL offers a more elegant solution. The Domino XL is the newest addition to Festools line of Domino mortise and tenon joiners. In the distant past I joined two 48" long boards with dowels with a perfect fit.Ĭan dowel joints fail - for sure, but so can any joint as you can see in that article. Yes, but Festool doesnt make a biscuit joiner. Festool has taken the revolutionary concept of the DOMINO joiner and made it larger with the DOMINO XL Joiner. It is significantly more expensive than many doweling jigs but much less expensive than a Festool Domino and has some serious engineering making it impressively accurate - check the videos and you can also see the easy way to align over long joint surfaces beyond the five or so dowels in the jig. But before I owned one I had a Dowelmax jig which was a phenomenal tool in many ways as well - I still use it periodically as a "quick and dirty" joinery tool. DOMINOs are available in two materials: Beech for interior applications and weatherproof, insect- and mould-resistant sipo DOMINOs for outdoor applications. The Festool Domino is a great machine and has revolutionized loose tenon joinery and if you can afford it, it is a great tool. The Festool 574447 DOMINO Joiner DOMINO XL DF 700 EQ-Set, with an expanded range of thicker, longer tenons, will quickly and precisely join massive slabs. All those techniques are useful in the correct application and when executed well. I do find that table of joint failures fascinating - especially love the modest half lap being so strong! When I go down that list in the past six months or so I have used half lap joints, bridle joints, M & T joints, floating M & T joints, Biscuits (as an alignment tool), Dowels, Dominoes, even simple cope and stick joints where panels were glued in place.
