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Build Slatted Safety Rail with Domino Joinery

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What happens here

Cut 1x2 selected pine pieces to size for the slatted safety rail. These will form the vertical slats and horizontal rails. Use a Festool Domino joiner to cut mortises (rectangular holes) into the ends of the vertical slats and along the inside edges of the horizontal rails. Apply wood glue to the mortises and insert the rectangular Domino tenons. Assemble the entire slatted panel by fitting the tenons into the corresponding mortises, ensuring a tight and strong joint. Clamp the assembly while the glue dries. This method creates a robust joint suitable for a safety rail.

Goal: Cut 1x2 pine pieces for the slatted safety rail, create mortises with a Domino joiner, and assemble with wood glue and Domino tenons for a strong, aesthetically pleasing joint.

Tools and materials

  • 1x2 Selected Pine
  • Clamps
  • Domino Tenons
  • Festool Domino Joiner
  • Miter Saw
  • Wood Glue

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that is take a bunch of one by twos we're basically going to create the styles and the rails and then create these in the middle if you don't have a domino that is uh like a tenon jig you'll see the tool used here in a minute um just use pocket holes or brad nails i have a domino i'm going to use my domino all right you guys have to see this the door is looking awesome so check this out it's roughly spaced out it still needs to be gapped out evenly oh it's gonna look so good over there i'm gonna round over all these edges i'm not gonna do it where it joins because i've done that before and i don't like how that looks but i am just gonna run it on my router right there now remember if you don't have a router table no problem you just use a palm router with a little round over a bit and it just makes it so much nicer since the router is going to be going anyways i might as well take those uh face frames for the drawers and just give a nice round over cleaner look all around it we're almost there let's go [Music] now earlier i mentioned about dominoes dominoes are just these little tiny little wood chips they're basically the idea of creating a mortise and tenon but in a more expedited quicker way a domino is a gift sent from heaven to earth and all it does is it quickly lines up you press it in and it creates that exact size hole that you can shove that in now if you don't have this tool which is pretty pricey if you don't have this tool for the longest time when i did things like that there are other alternative options number one is to do a dowel dowel is a little tedious to take a little bit longer but you can still totally do it option number two is you can create pocket holes now you will create the pocket holes you can pocket all screws on the back side of the door obviously you'll see all the pocket holes the solution is these pocket hole plugs a little bit of wood glue shove it in there once it dries shave it off and then sand it and it would fill anything that's exposed so you have a plethora of plethora i don't say that often enough you have a bunch of different options to do this door i have this tool i'm gonna do this let's get to work [Music] here are all of our mortises right over here little holes basically for our tenons we have all these little dominoes it's got these little grooves on them when moisture like wood glue gets on them it expands so creates even a tighter seal so if you excuse me i got a lot of glue to do [Music]

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